General Music II
Recommended Prerequisite: General Music I
Grades Offered: 10 – 12
Credits: ½ - 1
SDE Course Code: 3505
MNPS Course Code: MUS2271
Course Description
This course is a continuation of General Music I.
Course of Study
- Singing
- Sing a solo with expression and technical accuracy
- Sing in an ensemble with expression and technical accuracy
o Play a solo melody with expression and technical accuracy
o Play in an instrumental ensemble with expression and technical accuracy
- Improvising
- Create a non-notated melody with specified guidelines
- Use melodic skills to improvise a variation on a well-know melody
- Experiment with placing tonic, subdominant and dominant chords as an accompaniment for a well-know melody
o Compose individually, pieces effectively demonstrating the use of the
elements of music to achieve unity and variety, tension and release, and
balance
o Arrange individually, pieces effectively demonstrating the use of the
elements of music to achieve unity and variety
- Reading and Notating
- Accurately interpret notated musical examples that include rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, and symbols of musical expression at level of difficulty of 3, on a scale of 1 to 6
- Use standard notation, notate musical examples in two parts
o Listen to and analyze music using the technical vocabulary of music
o Analyze three or more musical examples of different styles and describe the devices that make them unique
o Compare and contrast the compositional devices that provide tension and release in two similar musical examples
- Evaluating
- Develop appropriate criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music compositions
- Develop appropriate criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances
- Interdisciplinary Connections
o Compare characteristics of music and those of two other arts disciplines within a particular historical period, and style
o Accurately differentiate how influences from the principles and subject matter of one academic discipline outside the arts and those of music impact each other
o Assess the presences and uses of music as to its beneficial, harmful, or therapeutic effects
Standards
MNPS Music Standards
http://www.mnps.org
National and State General Music Standards
http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/standards
Textbook
Fowler, Charles. Music! Its Role and Importance in Our Lives
New York, New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 1994.
Recommended and or Required Resources
CDs to Music! Its Role and Importance in Our Lives
Videos/DVDs of performances
Live performances
Professional musicians
Musicologists
Instruments for performance purposes (piano or guitar lab)
Music writing software