Unit Title:

Music Composition/ Performance

Content Area: Music

Grade: 9-12

Duration: approx. 8 weeks

Standards and Benchmarks:

M-CE-H2/3/4/5

M-AP- H6

M-CA-H3

Objectives:

Compose an original work of 64 measures that will be entered in the PTSA’s Reflection competition.

Performance: based on IEP student will prepare new repertoire focused on performing Oct. 25^th for Rainbow Childcare benefit

Resources and Materials:

Piano/ Instruments

Music Time Deluxe – music writing software

Flip Camera- video and record music for critiques

Differentiation:

This composition project will be individual to each student. Guidelines and deadline will be given to facilitate appropriate student progress

Preparing Students for the Lesson:

· Transitions

· Expected behaviors

I expect some students to write quickly and some to take much longer to come up with their own unique and original ideas. For those who compose fast I will encourage more advanced techniques of expression to be added. Other students will need more personalized, one on one help transcribing their music. I expect this to take most of my time in class.

Assessment:

Daily journals (bell ringers) / Homework

This week’s daily journals will consist of two musical terms and definitions. Copy and review each daily for a small quiz Friday.

M-Air (= Italian: aria) appearing sometimes with the earlier English spelling ayre, means a tune or melody, for voice or instrument. Atonal music is music that has no specific tonality, is not in a specific key and therefore has no specific 'home' note or chord. The word atonality refers technically to various forms of 20th century music not in a key.

T-Cantabile (Italian: in singing style) appears often at the beginning of movements as in andante cantabile - at walking speed and in a singing style. Da capo (Italian: from the beginning), abbreviated to the letters D.C. at the end of a piece of music or a section of it, means that it should be played or sung again from the beginning

W- The word "flat", indicated by a sign derived from the letter b, shows that a note should be lowered by a semitone. In a more general sense music that is flat may simply be out of tune, its pitch below the accepted pitch. Glissando- to slide, the Italianized word is used to describe sliding in music from one note to another.

Th-In music an interval is the distance in pitch between two notes, counted from the lower note upwards, with the lower note as the first of the interval. Mosso (Italian: moved, agitated) is generally found in the phrases più mosso, faster, and meno mosso, slower.

F- none

Composition –graded completion deadlines

Performance/ Playing grades based on assigned literature for the individual student