Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?
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.
- Complete melodic and rhythmic dictation of increased difficulty.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Mixed meter
- Contour
- Conjunct/ disjunct
- Major/ minor
- Homophonic
- Heterophonic
- Polyphonic
- Call and response
- Round
- Canon
- Binary (AB)
- Ternary (ABA)
- Articulations
- Stylistic markings
- 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.
