AE17.MU.CT.AC.2

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 06-12 - Music

AE17.MU.CT.AC.2

Assemble and organize multiple sounds or musical ideas to create initial expressive statements of selected sonic events, memories, images, concepts, texts, or storylines.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?

Skills Examples

Creating
  • Provide suggestions, using musical terminology, that help improve a musical performance.
  • Select a passage from literature and create a simple composition to illustrate the meaning of the text.
  • Select several pieces of music, varied in genre, to illustrate a storyline for classmates to interpret.
Reading/ Writing
  • Complete melodic and rhythmic dictation of increased difficulty.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Mixed meter
Melody
  • Contour
  • Conjunct/ disjunct
Harmony
  • Major/ minor
  • Homophonic
  • Heterophonic
  • Polyphonic
Form
  • Call and response
  • Round
  • Canon
  • Binary (AB)
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Articulations
  • Stylistic markings
Other
  • Key signatures
  • Treble or bass clef (dependent on student voicing/ instrument)
  • Simple aural skills (ear training)
  • Simple sight reading
  • Melodic dictation
  • Improvisation

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
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