AE17.MU.CT.AD.1

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

AE17.MU.CT.AD.1
Describe and demonstrate multiple ways in which sounds and musical ideas can be used to represent extended sonic experiences or abstract ideas.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?

Skills Examples

Creating

Compose an original work for varied instrumentation and/or voicing that demonstrates understanding of common practice period norms.

Reading/ Writing

Complete melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic dictation of varying difficulty.

Responding/ Evaluating

Analyze a variety of musical works (instrumental and vocal) using terminology that is representative of the common practice period.

Vocabulary

Harmony

Harmonic Rhythm
Modulation
Chromaticism/ Borrowed Chords/ Secondary Dominants and Leading Tone Chords

Form

Motive
Sonata Form
Rondo Form
Fugue
Cadence
Period, Double Period, Parallel Period, etc.

Other

Advanced Sight Reading
Advanced Aural Skills
Transposition
Harmonic Dictation

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.