Music
Grade level: 8
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Music History: Medieval |
Cultural, historical, philosophical developments and their affect upon music; Hildegaurd of Bingen; Guido of Arrezzo; Monk Gregory; early music notation and solfege; chant; organum; the mass |
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Music History: Renaissance |
Cultural, historical, philosophical developments and their affect upon music; Palestrina - Prince of Music; Josquin de Prez - De Profundis; characteristics of the music of this time; polyphony |
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Music History: Baroque |
Cultural, historical, philosophical developments and their affect upon music; Handel; Bach; major works; opera and oratorio begin; development of orchestra; Basso Continuo; characteristics of the music of this time |
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Music History: Classical |
Cultural, historical, philosophical developments and their affect upon music; Mozart; Haydn; major works of Mozart and Haydn; the five points of the classical style; genres: concerto and symphony and sonata; forms: binary, ternary, sonata, rondo; opera: aria and recitative; Beethoven; the Bridge; points of Beethoven’s style; 3 eras of Beethoven; Beethoven’s music |
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Music History: Romantic |
Cultural, historical, philosophical developments and their affect upon music; Schubert: art songs; Berlioz: the orchestra expands; major points of Romantic style and it’s goals; opera in the Romantic era |
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Music History: Modern |
Cultural, historical, philosophical developments and their affect upon music; diverse philosophical views create diverse music; surrealism and impressionism; Shoenburg and Stravinsky; increased experimentation and more extreme ideas |
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Music Theory |
Scales; key signatures; time signatures – major and minor; reading notation – both clefs, intervals, etc.; chord building; chord progressions; chord analyzing of hymns |
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Worship Team: Building a Band |
Guitar playing unit – skills to play, strumming, chords, knowing the instrument – all SS play; bass guitar unit – all SS play – skills… technique, etc.; drums – all SS play – trap-set technique… know the parts; set… basic rock beat; entire class creates a worship team; class splits into two or three teams … each member gets a role; team writes own song and works on developing a group sound |
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Dynamics |
ID contrasting dynamics in different style periods; ID and define dynamic symbols (f, p, ff, pp, mf, mp, >, sfz, etc); ID and discuss dynamic’s affect upon mood of music |
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Tone Color |
Aural and visual recognition of instruments; ID tone color based on historical period and culture |
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Tempo |
ID tempi of stylistic forms and period tendencies |
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Duration/Rhythm |
ID meter; perform/listen to irregular meter |
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Pitch |
Define 12-tone rows; ID major and minor |
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Texture |
Consonance; dissonance; polyphony; homophony; monophony |
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Form |
Compare/contrast time periods; ID forms… sonata, mass, binary, ternary, rondo |