High School Block:
Music 10, 112, 122
The curriculum guide for Music 10, 112, 122 contributes to a multi-disciplinary, interrelated school curriculum. Like other art forms, music offers unique experiences from which a better understanding of the world can emerge. Learners who are engaged in such a program can develop a comprehensive awareness, appreciation, and understanding of personal life experiences and events. Learners may choose different pathways to develop skills in a variety of performance and composition settings.
This continuum is designed to be undertaken in sequential order unless circumstances allow for alternative options. For example, a Grade 9 learner who has been involved with music outside of the school environment (through private lessons, community music programs, etc.) may be able to enter Grade 11 music if, after consultation with the school music educator, Grade 9 and 10 music learning outcomes have been successfully documented and demonstrated by the learner.
In Music 10, 112, 122, learners will:
- connect music learning to personal experiences
- explore musical examples from multiple cultural contexts
- explore the role of the arts in society and its power to affect change
- use music with intention to communicate, create, and compose with intention
- continue to develop practical skills in music performance
- display increased confidence as performers and creators
- practise respect for varying opinions, tastes, capacity for sharing music
This guide provides educators a way to present a meaningful, developmentally appropriate, and comprehensive music education program through both performance and non-performance activities. Depending on local school and/or district resources, the outcomes may be realized through various modes and approaches. This may include (but is not limited to) choral, keyboard, strings, instrumental or band ensembles.
CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS
Synthesis
Create
- Compose music for specific purposes and audiences
- Compose music that is representative of various genres
- Demonstrate proficiency in composing music using a variety of technologies
- Synthesize aural concepts into performance, composition, and analysis
- Demonstrate proficiency in performance
Connect
- Connect the ways music is important to communication, history and understanding each other
Communicate
- Critique artistic intent to determine meaning
- Justify choices in music-making
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Composition
Skill Descriptor: Synthesize the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire
Achievement Indicators:
- Create, perform and/or produce examples of music that reflect emerging synthesis of:
- elements of music
- notation
- form (or lack of form)
- specific moods, feelings, or character
Big Idea: Aural Literacy
Skill Descriptor: Synthesize the elements of music to develop aural literacy using examples from a variety of cultural perspectives.
Achievement Indicators:
- Melody/harmony:
- Identify major and dominant 7th chords
- Identify simple chord progressions
- Rhythm/Duration
- Aurally identify a variety of rhythmic styles
- Dictate rhythm patterns using simple time
- Timbre/Texture
- Categorize instruments using Hornbostel-Sachs system of labelling
- Identify individual and combinations of voices
Big Idea: Application and Performance
Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive products for a range of audiences and purposes.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS
Achievement Indicators:
- Create a portfolio of performance examples which demonstrate understanding of the elements of music
- Sight read extended and increasingly complex melodies from standard notation
- Apply healthy and effective practice habits for:
- correct posture, hand, and finger position
- controlled breathing and phrasing
- tone quality and intonation
- critical listening
- Apply and develop expressive proficiency through:
- observing symbols including dynamics, articulation, tempo, etc.
- sensitivity to balance (melody/accompaniment)
Strand: Connect
Big Idea: Art and Culture
Skill Descriptor: Analyze the role of music in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.
Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Discuss personal and cultural importance of local music
- Examine personal and cultural importance of the music of Black diaspora
Strand: Communicate
Big Idea: Artistic Intent
Skill Descriptor: Synthesize artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM, CL, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Explain how elements of music impact emotional response
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Composition
Skill Descriptor: Synthesize the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
Achievement Indicators:
- Create, perform and/or produce examples of music that reflect emerging synthesis of:
- multiple elements of music
- notation
- form (or lack of form)
- specific moods, feelings, or character
Big Idea: Aural Literacy
Skill Descriptor: Synthesize the elements of music to develop aural literacy using examples from a variety of cultural perspectives.
Achievement Indicators:
- Melody/Harmony:
- Identify augmented and diminished triads
- Identify resolution of chords (cadences)
- Identify melodic features
- Rhythm/Duration:
- Aurally identify a variety of rhythmic styles
- Dictate short rhythmic patterns in simple and compound time
Big Idea: Application and Performance
Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive products for a range of audiences and purposes.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS
Achievement Indicators:
- Curate a portfolio of performance examples which demonstrate the progression of understanding of the elements of music
- Sight read pieces with a level of fluency appropriate to development
- Refine healthy and effective practice habits
- Refine expressive proficiency through:
- observing symbols including dynamics, articulation, tempo, etc.
- sensitivity to balance (melody/accompaniment)
- making interpretive choices
Strand: Connect
Big Idea: Art and Culture
Skill Descriptor: Analyze the role of music in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.
Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Research the relationship between a culture and its music with emphasis on historical context
Strand: Communicate
Big Idea: Artistic Intent
Skill Descriptor: Synthesize artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM, CL, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Compare how the elements of music can work together or be manipulated to evoke a specific response
Big Idea: Critique
Skill Descriptor: Develop skills in music critique.
Global Competencies: CTPS, CL, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Hypothesize why music becomes popular or goes viral
- Reflect on creative choices and rationalize personal artistic intent for music-making
- Research organizations which support and defend artist rights
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Composition
Skill Descriptor: Synthesize the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire
Achievement Indicators:
- Create, perform and/or produce examples of music that reflect synthesis of:
- multiple elements of music
- notation
- form (or lack of form)
- a variety of instrument groupings
- specific moods, feelings, or character
Big Idea: Aural Literacy
Skill Descriptor: Synthesize the elements of music to develop aural literacy using examples from a variety of cultural perspectives.
Achievement Indicators:
- Melody/Harmony:
- Identify major, minor, augmented, and diminished 7th chords
- Aurally identify when tonality and progression characteristics contrast Western tradition
- Rhythm/Duration:
- Aurally identify a variety of rhythmic styles in simple and compound time
- Aurally identify polyrhythm, mixed metre, cross rhythms, etc.
- Dictate rhythmic patterns in simple and compound time
Big Idea: Application and Performance
Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive products for a range of audiences and purposes.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS
Achievement Indicators:
- Curate and present/publish a portfolio of performance examples which demonstrate synthesis of the elements of music
- Sight read pieces with an increased level of fluency appropriate to development
- Model healthy and effective practice habits
- Model expressive proficiency through:
- observing symbols including dynamics, articulation, tempo, etc.
- sensitivity to balance (melody/accompaniment)
- justification of interpretive choices
Strand: Connect
Big Idea: Art and Culture
Skill Descriptor: Analyze the role of music in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.
Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Research a way in which music has been an effective vehicle for change
- Enact an action project using music to affect change for an issue that is personally important
Strand: Communicate
Big Idea: Artistic Intent
Skill Descriptor: Synthesize artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM, CL, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Use knowledge of elements of music to infer artistic intent
- Describe harmonies, timbres, and textures in a piece of music using the language of music