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.
For Educators:
➔ PL Hub: Music
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
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Composition
Skill Descriptor: Analyze the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
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.
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
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Composition
Skill Descriptor: Analyze the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
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.
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
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Composition
Skill Descriptor: Analyze the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
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.
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