AE17.MU.CT.AD.11

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

AE17.MU.CT.AD.11
Using established criteria and feedback, identify the ways in which performances use compositional techniques and convey the formal design, style, and historical/cultural context of the works.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?

Skills Examples

Performing

Identify and select specific sections, movements or entire works that express personal experiences and interests, moods, visual images, concepts, texts or storylines in moderately complex or complex forms.

Creating

Analyze how the elements of music, including form, and compositional techniques of selected works relate to the style, function and context in rehearsal and performance.

Reading/ Writing

Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying form, compositional techniques, and the style and historical and cultural context of the work.

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 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.