middle Block:

Music

In Music, learners continue to expand their ability to connect music learning to personal experiences and/or background. They compose independently with few prompts, explore the role of music in society, and consider its power to effect change in individuals and groups. While developing competency in some instruments and learning new skills on others, learners create and compose their own music and continue to develop communication through selecting songs which reflect a mood or purpose. Learners create, connect, and communicate through music with increasing confidence as performers and creators.

CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS

APPLICATION

CREATE

  • Compose music with skill and purpose
  • Compose music in a variety of genres
  • Compose music using a variety of technologies
  • Develop aural skills to support performance and composition
  • 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
GRADE 6

Strand: Create

Big Idea: Composition

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

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Create music that communicates thoughts, experiences, and feelings using appropriate terminology and available technologies
  • Improvise, compose, notate, and present music by selecting from a variety of materials, techniques, notations, and forms

Big Idea: Aural Literacy

Skill Descriptor: Analyze the elements of music to develop aural literacy using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Identify polyphonic texture
  • Sight read melodies from standard notation

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 and perform rhythms accurately using eighth-eighth, 2 sixteenths, and dotted eighth, sixteenth, and eighth patterns
  • Sing/play (alone and with others) with emphasis on expression and being in tune
  • Sing/play a single part accurately within a two-part texture

Strand: Connect

Big Idea: Art and Culture

Skill Descriptor: Describe the role of music in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss the role the arts play in building intercultural understanding, mutual respect, and positive relationships
  • Describe the role and influence of music and musicians in the Atlantic Region
  • Discuss the purpose and function of music in historical eras and cultures
  • Identify skills gained through the study of music that may connect to a career pathway

Big Idea: Art Form Relationships

Skill Descriptor: Compare the relationship between music and other art forms.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Describe the role and influence of the music industry in popular culture and the media
  • Discuss connections between music and other disciplines using elements of music
  • List examples of the influence of music in shaping or developing identity

Strand: Communicate

Big Idea: Reflect and Respond

Skill Descriptor: Analyze artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

  • Describe their own and others’ music-making with emphasis on elements of music
  • Share ideas and feelings with others during music-making
  • Make and justify decisions about own music-making using terminology from the elements of music
  • Analyse and make decisions about various interpretations of a work
  • Identify problems related to creating and performing music and explore possible solutions
  • Identify form in classroom repertoire and in their own compositions
  • Compare subjective and objective responses to music, and examine the relationship between them
  • Demonstrate respect for the responses of others to music
GRADE 7

Strand: Create

Big Idea: Composition

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

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Create music that communicates thoughts, experiences, and feelings using appropriate terminology and available technologies
  • Improvise, compose, notate, and present music by selecting from a variety of materials, techniques, notations, and forms

Big Idea: Aural Literacy

Skill Descriptor: Analyze the elements of music to develop aural literacy using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Differentiate between major and minor
  • Sight read melodies from standard notation

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 and perform rhythms accurately using irregular metres such as 5/4 metre and 7/4 metre
  • Sing/play (alone and with others) with emphasis on expression and being in tune
  • Sing/play with others with emphasis on the ability to maintain a part within a variety of textures

Strand: Connect

Big Idea: Art and Culture

Skill Descriptor: Describe the role of music in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Describe the role the arts play in building intercultural understanding, mutual respect, and positive relationships
  • Describe musical contributions of various cultural groups in Canada
  • Investigate the purpose and function of music in historical eras and cultures
  • Discuss how skills gained through the study of music may be transferred to a career pathway

Big Idea: Art Form Relationships

Skill Descriptor: Compare the relationship between music and other art forms.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Investigate the role and influence of the music industry in popular culture and the media
  • Compare connections between music and other disciplines using elements of music
  • Investigate examples of the influence of music in shaping or developing identity

Strand: Communicate

Big Idea: Reflect and Respond

Skill Descriptor: Analyze artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

  • Reflect on their own and others music-making with emphasis on elements of music
  • Discuss the reasons why specific musical works have been created
  • Share ideas and feelings with others during music-making
  • Make and justify decisions about own music-making using terminology from the elements of music
  • Articulate and justify personal response to music, using appropriate musical terminology
  • Compare various interpretations of a piece of music
  • Analyse interpretations of their own and others’ music, using appropriate musical terminology
  • Identify problems related to creating and performing music and explore possible solutions
  • Identify form in classroom repertoire, compositions, and listening examples
  • Demonstrate respect for the responses of others to music
GRADE 8

Strand: Create

Big Idea: Composition

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

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Create music that that demonstrates an understanding of the elements of music using appropriate terminology and a variety of available technologies
  • Improvise, compose, notate, and present music within a specific form by selecting from a variety of materials, techniques, and notations.

Big Idea: Aural Literacy

Skill Descriptor: Analyze the elements of music to develop aural literacy using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Compare the sound and structure of major and minor scales and triads as they relate to an instrument
  • Sight read melodies from standard notation

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:

  • Perform a solo line accurately to communicate an assigned mood
  • Sing/play (alone and with others) with emphasis on expression and being in tune
  • Sing/play with others demonstrating an ability to maintain their part within a variety of musical textures, harmonies, and styles

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:

  • Analyze the role the arts play in building intercultural understanding, mutual respect, and positive relationships
  • Describe the contributions of various composers and musicians, past and present
  • Research the purpose and function of music in historical eras and cultures
  • Analyse the role music plays in various cultures, including their own
  • Summarize how skills gained through the study of music may be transferred to various career pathways

Big Idea: Art Form Relationships

Skill Descriptor: Compare the relationship between music and other art forms.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Research the role and influence that music plays in popular culture and the media
  • Critique connections between music and other disciplines using elements of music
  • Assess examples of the influence of music in shaping or developing identity

Strand: Communicate

Big Idea: Reflect and Respond

Skill Descriptor: Analyze artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

  • Critique their own and others’ music-making with emphasis on elements of music
  • Analyse and evaluate expressive intention in their music-making
  • Share ideas and feelings with others during music-making
  • Describe the reasons why specific musical works have been created
  • Make and justify decisions about own music-making using terminology from the elements of music
  • Articulate and justify personal response to music from a variety of musical styles, using appropriate vocabulary
  • Analyse and compare various interpretations of a piece of music
  • Identify problems related to creating and performing music, and explain possible solutions
  • Identify form in a variety of styles of classroom repertoire, compositions, and listening examples
  • Identify non-verbal gestures, making connections to standard and non-standard notation, and musical expression
  • Demonstrate respect for the responses of others to music