Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Describe and demonstrate multiple ways in which sounds and musical ideas can be used to represent experiences or abstract ideas.
- Share music through the use of notation, solo or group performance, or technology and demonstrate and explain how the elements of music, compositional techniques and processes have been used to express intent.
- 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.
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
