Visual and Performing Arts: Music Content Standards, State of California
2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music
Students apply vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing
a varied repertoire of music. They compose and arrange music and
improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments, using digital/electronic
technology when appropriate. Compose, Arrange, and Improvise
2.6 Compose music, using musical elements for expressive effect.
2.7 Compose and arrange music for voices or various acoustic or
digital/electronic instruments, using appropriate ranges for traditional
sources of sound.
2.8 Arrange pieces for voices and instruments other than those
for which the pieces were originally written.
2.9 Improvise harmonizing parts, using an appropriate style.
2.10 Improvise original melodies over given chord progressions. National Educational Technology Standards
1. CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
Goals To produce a Winter Concert of Original Compositions at Gunn High School. To give every Choir student, regardless of their past musical training, an avenue for creative expression through composition.
To experience composition as a rewarding activity separate from notation or other theory or skills.
To bring music technology into the Gunn Vocal Music Program, and for students to experience technology as something that can enhance the creative process, rather than replace it.
Objectives Students will compose a song which reflects the mood and meaning of a text. Students will share and collaborate with their peers by recording their songs and giving input to one other on a specific set of criteria. Students will self-evaluate on a rubric that measures use of melody, rhythm, harmony and form to create an expressive effect. Students will rehearse and participate in the process of arranging and developing the drafts into performance ready works. Students will perform a select number of finished compositions in a concert. Level 1 participants will explore web resources on the subjects of Pitch Notation, Rhythmic Notation, Major Scales, Minor Scales, Melody Writing, Form and Structure. Outcomes A website where all student recordings of original songs can be posted and shared. The Gunn '08 WInter Choir Concert of Original Works.
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