Grade 8 (Term 2/L2/2015/2016) : Creating Music for a Scenario

Common Anchor

• 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

1. Able to identify music ideas (sounds, rhythms, melodies, harmonies ...) related to an expressive idea.
2. Able to perform and create harmonic/rhythmic accompaniments.
3. Have experience creating musical ideas to match an expressive idea or feeling.
4. Recognize and able to convey expressive intent in music performance.
5. Have experience manipulating the various elements of music displaying effective compositional technique.
6. Able to apply compositional techniques for creating unity and variety, tension and release, and balance to convey expressive intent.
7. 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.