High School Block:

Music 9

In Grade 9, learners consolidate concepts and skills to ensure readiness for more advance learning in the arts.
Learners continue to connect music and visual art learning to personal experiences; explore the role of the arts
in society and its power to affect change; use music and visual art to communicate, create, and compose with
intention; develop competency in some areas while developing new skills in others; use transferrable skills in
creating, connecting, and communicating; demonstrate increased confidence as performers and creators; and
demonstrate respect for varying opinions and tastes.

For Educators:

➔ PL Hub: Creative Arts

CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS

Application

Create

  • Compose music with skill and purpose
  • Compose music using a variety of technologies
  • Integrate aural concepts into performance, composition, and listening
  • Develop proficiency in performance

Connect

  • Connect the ways music is important to communication, history and understanding each other

Communicate

  • Analyze artistic intent to determine meaning
  • Justify choices in music-making
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GRADE 9

Strand: Create

Big Idea: Composition

Skill Descriptor: Synthesize the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Create and produce short examples of music that reflect understanding of elements of music, notation, form, specific moods, feelings, or character, with the option of using digital tools to generate, refine, and evaluate compositional ideas while maintaining personal creative control

Big Idea: Aural Literacy

Skill Descriptor: Synthesize the elements of music to develop aural literacy using examples from a variety of cultural perspectives.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Melody/Harmony
    • Identify consonance and dissonance in relation to chords and intervals
  • Rhythm/Duration
    • Dictate short rhythm patterns using simple time
  • Timbre/Texture
    • Identify individual and combinations of acoustic and digital instruments

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:

  • Play and/or sing using:
    • simple and compound time signatures
    • standard notation
    • treble and/or bass clefs
    • key signatures appropriate to skill development
    • major and minor chords and major intervals
    • a variety of forms and styles
  • Sight read short melodies from standard notation
  • Differentiate and implement healthy practice habits for:
    • posture, hand, and finger position
    • breathing and phrasing
    • tone quality and intonation
    • critical listening
  • Differentiate and implement expression through observing symbols including dynamics, articulation, tempo, etc.

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:

  • Examine personal and cultural importance of Canadian music with an emphasis on Wabanaki nations

Big Idea: Career Connections

Skill Descriptor: Analyze the role of music in industry and potential career pathway.

Global Competencies: CTPS, ICE, SASM, CL, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Connect specific skills gained through the study of music that may be transferred to a specific career pathway

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:

  • Discuss how individual response is affected by prior experience and knowledge

Big Idea: Critique

Skill Descriptor: Develop skills in music critique

Global Competencies: CTPS, CL, CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Construct an argument of what makes music ‘good’ or ‘bad’ using the language of music
  • Explain the importance of copyright in the music industry
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