AE17.MU.CT.AD.19

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

AE17.MU.CT.AD.19

Describe and evaluate ways in which critiquing others’ work and receiving feedback from others have been specifically applied in the personal creative process.

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Essential Questions

EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Select a piece of music that is of appropriate difficulty, and perform it differently to reflect composer styles and/or to portray musical characteristics indicative of different musical genres.
Reading/ Writing
  • Use roman numerals and figured bass symbols to analyze a teacher selected passage of music in two or more ways. Which analysis makes the most sense in the context of the entire piece? Which analysis makes the most sense when considering composer style and the time period from which the piece was selected?
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Describe different compositional devices and techniques found in a variety of selected musical works, and, make educated conjectures about why composers used such specific techniques.
  • Listen to several renditions of the same musical selection, and describe which performance is most accurate/appropriate given the musical genre and knowledge of the composer's individual preferences.

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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
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