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

AE17.MU.CT.AD.13

Share live or recorded performances of works (both personal and others’), and explain and/or demonstrate understanding of how the expressive intent of the music is conveyed.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?

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 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
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