Music: Vocal Music

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

It is expected that students will:

Elements and Principles
Creating/Performing/Communicating

• create/perform a work of art demonstrating an awareness and experience of several of the basic elements and principles of the discipline used
• create/perform a work of art demonstrating the use of the basic elements and principles of the discipline to communicate specific ideas, moods, or feelings
• create/perform a work of art demonstrating the use of strategies for developing an artistic image or idea

• develop the vocabulary for the discipline studied
• identify, describe, analyse, interpret, and make judgements about the basic elements and principles as used in a variety of art works

• create/perform a work of art that reflects an understanding of the impact of social/cultural/historical contexts
• create/perform a work of art that communicates specific beliefs/traditions in response to historical/contemporary issues

• identify, describe, and analyse cultural or historical styles as represented in a variety of art works
• critique a work of art relating its content to the context in which it was created
• describe or demonstrate how a specific work of art supports/challenges specific beliefs/traditions, or responds to historical/contemporary issues

• create/perform a work of art expressing the students' own ideas, thoughts, or feelings
• create or perform a work of art for a specific public need (e.g., advertising, public ceremony, or social cause)

• identify, describe, analyse, interpret, and make judgements about how ideas, thoughts, feelings, or messages are communicated in a variety of others' art works
• examine the tensions between public acceptance and personal expression in the art discipline being studied

SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• review the basics of proper vocal production
• review music notation symbols
• perform a variety of vocal music from historical periods and analyse its text, melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, dynamics, and timbre)
• listen to choral music, identifying the principles and elements from various cultures, and from different historical periods
• explore the different uses of vocal music in our own and other societies
• explore a feeling or emotion through voice(no words)
• sing various vocal arrangements (e.g., SATB, a cappella, solo)
• graph a composition for its use of tension/release
• examine the relationship between text and music in a composition
• integrate dance, drama, or visual arts in a performance which supports the effect of the music.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• Provide written and oral assessments of students' vocal technique.
• Test students' knowledge of traditional notation systems and of how these systems are used to describe the elements and principles of music.
• Assess students' understandings of the context of works over history and different cultures through written reports and oral presentations (both individual and group).
• Have students critically analyse a song in terms of the relationship between the text and the music.
• Have students examine music from an unfamiliar culture, (e.g., Inuit throat singing, Japanese No plays, and First Nations drumming) and write a report on how music is used in that society.

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