Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
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 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
