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
- Compose an original work for varied instrumentation and/or voicing that demonstrates understanding of common practice period norms.
- Complete melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic dictation of varying difficulty.
- 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
- Motive
- Sonata Form
- Rondo Form
- Fugue
- Cadence
- Period, Double Period, Parallel Period, etc.
- Advanced Sight Reading
- Advanced Aural Skills
- Transposition
- Harmonic Dictation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
