- Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts
- Select and develop musical ideas for defined purposes and contexts
- Evaluate and refine selected musical ideas to create musical work(s) that meet appropriate criteria
Enduring Understandings
- The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence artists’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
- Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their experience, context and expressive intent.
- Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
- Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
Essential Question(s)
- How do musicians generate creative ideas?
- How do musicians make creative decisions?
- How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
- When is a creative work ready to share?
Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge
- Able to identify music ideas (sounds, rhythms, melodies, harmonies ...) related to an expressive idea.
- Able to perform and create harmonic/rhythmic accompaniments.
- Have experience creating musical ideas to match an expressive idea or feeling.
- Recognize and able to convey expressive intent in music performance.
- Have experience manipulating the various elements of music displaying effective compositional technique.
- Able to apply compositional techniques for creating unity and variety, tension and release, and balance to convey expressive intent.
- Can read and use standard or iconic notation and/or can use audio/video recording devices and music technology to document rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and harmonic sequences.
