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

AE17.MU.CT.AD.3

Analyze and demonstrate the development of sounds and extended musical ideas in drafts of music within a variety of moderately complex or complex forms.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
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.
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 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
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