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