Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Create rehearsal plans for musical works, identifying the compositional elements, style, and historical or cultural context of the work.
- Using established criteria, identify the ways in which performances convey the elements of music, style, and mood.
- Analyze a work and show the different techniques the composer uses and describe their effect on the performance.
- Write a melody following and showing proper use of root position, first inversion and second inversion structures and voice leadings.
- Analyze the elements of music from written and aural examples relating them to style, mood, and context.
- Describe how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and/or listener.
- Identify, evaluate, and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of various works.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Mixed Meter
- Heterophonic
- Articulations
- Stylistic markings
- Simple Aural Skills (ear training)
- Simple Sight Reading
- Melodic Dictation
- Improvisation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
