How do musicians generate and perform creative ideas using instruments?
Adaptive Perseverance - Mastering an instrument requires continuous effort and adapting to new challenges, reflecting resilience.
Learner’s Mindset - The journey to mastery involves a lifelong quest for improvement and openness to feedback.
Communication - Music is a universal language that enables powerful nonverbal communication, enhancing self-expression and understanding between diverse groups.
Responsibility - Committing to practice and group performances cultivates a sense of responsibility and integrity.
Global Citizenship - Through music, individuals can connect with global cultures, fostering empathy and a sense of belonging in a larger community.
Critical Thinking - Learning music theory and applying it to practice develops problem-solving skills and creativity.
Collaboration - Ensemble play emphasizes teamwork, leveraging the strengths and perspectives of each member for a common goal.
How can different instruments create unique sounds?
What features help us classify instruments into families?
How can combining instruments from different families inspire creativity?
Students will identify and name classroom and orchestral instruments.
Students will classify instruments by family (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion).
Students will explain how different instruments can be used creatively.
MU:Cr1.1.4.a - Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural).
MU:Cr1.1.4.b - Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters.
MU:Cr2.1.4.a - Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.
MU:Cr2.1.4.b - Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas.
MU:Pr4.2.4.b - When analyzing selected music, read and perform using iconic and/or standard notation.
MU:Re7.2.4.a - Demonstrate and explain how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as social and cultural).
MU:Re8.1.4.a - Demonstrate and explain how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre) are used in performers’ and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.
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