M/J Band 3: MU.68.S.2.2
Big Idea: Skills, Techniques, and Processes
☆ Categorized as Best Assessed in the Classroom (BAC)
- Understanding: Development of skills, techniques, and processes in the arts strengthens our ability to remember, focus on, process, and sequence information.
- Benchmark: Transfer performance techniques from familiar to unfamiliar pieces.
Students will be able to:
- sight-read level-appropriate literature in the ensemble setting, using appropriate expressive elements, phrasing, and articulation
- how to identify musical elements such as key signature, time signature, rhythm patterns, dynamics, tempo, and articulation markings
- musical phrasing (e.g. 4 bar phrases versus 8 bar phrases, appropriate places to breathe)
- demonstrate the use of analytical techniques with respected to improving accuracy of sight-reading (e.g., rhythmic and pitch pattern recognition, chunking)
- common patterns found in music (e.g., scales, arpeggios, sequence, common rhythmic patterns)
Students will know:
- how to identify musical elements such as key signature, time signature, rhythm patterns, dynamics, tempo, and articulation markings
- musical phrasing (e.g. 4 bar phrases versus 8 bar phrases, appropriate places to breathe)
- common patterns found in music (e.g., scales, arpeggios, sequence, common rhythmic patterns)