AE17.MU.CT.AC.16

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

AE17.MU.CT.AC.16

Analyze aurally and/or by reading the scores of musical works the elements of music (including form), compositional techniques, and procedures, relating them to style, mood, and context; and explain how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and/or listener.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?

Skills Examples

Creating
  • Work with their teacher to select pieces of appropriate difficulty to fit a specific theme or idea behind a concert or performance.
Reading/ Writing
  • Write a text to be read at a concert or performance to give the audience appropriate background information about a musical selection before it is performed.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to their individual performing ensemble rehearse a designated passage of music. Using musical terminology, describe ways in which the ensemble can improve both technically and expressively.

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 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
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