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

AE17.MU.CT.AC.14

Explain how compositions are appropriate for both audience and context, and how this will shape future compositions.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?

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.
Creating
  • Analyze a work and show the different techniques the composer uses and describe their effect on the performance.
Reading/ Writing
  • Write a melody following and showing proper use of root position, first inversion and second inversion structures and voice leadings.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • 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
Harmony
  • Heterophonic
Expression
  • Articulations
  • Stylistic markings
Other
  • Simple Aural Skills (ear training)
  • Simple Sight Reading
  • Melodic Dictation
  • Improvisation

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
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