ALEX Classroom Resource

Artistic Process: Creating

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Process Components: Imagine

EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?

Rhythm

• Quarter note, quarter rest, paired eighth notes
• Strong/ weak beat
• Steady beat/ rhythm
• Allegro/ adagio

Melody

• Pitch set: Mi, So, La
• Steps/ skips/ repeated notes
• Melodic direction
• Modified staff
• Line notes and space notes

Harmony/texture

• Rhythmic ostinati
• Simple bordun

Form

• AB, ABA

Expression

• Legato, staccato
• Piano (p), forte (f)
• Classroom instrument classifications
• Clarinet, trombone, cello, drum
• Orchestral music: ballet
• Non-Western music celebrations

Other

• Proper singing posture
• Age-appropriate pitch matching (C4 -C5)¹
• Mallet/ drumming technique — hands together

Performing

• Perform original rhythmic compositions containing quarter note, quarter rest, paired eighth notes.
• Perform original melodic compositions containing quarter note, quarter rest, paired eighth notes and using the pitches mi/so/la.

Creating

• Improvise 4-beat melodic phrases containing mi/so/la, both vocally and on pitched percussion instruments.
• Construct 4-beat rhythmic patterns using manipulatives, such as note cards, popsicle sticks, or blocks.

Reading/ Writing

• Read 4-beat melodic phrases on a modified staff on which mi is indicated.
• Notate from dictation 4-beat rhythm phrases using manipulatives such as note cards, popsicle sticks, or blocks.
• Identify melodic patterns on a modified staff when played on a pitched instrument.

Responding/ Evaluating

• Create rubric for evaluation of peer compositions.
• With guidance, apply peer suggestions to personal compositions. Select an original composition for performance.

Artistic Process: Creating

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Process Components: Imagine

EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?

Rhythm

• Eighth note, eighth rest, half note, half rest, whole note, whole rest
• Strong/ weak beat — 2/4; 3/4 meter
• Accelerando/ ritardando

Melody

• Pitch Set: Do , Re, Mi, So, La
• Five-line staff
• Treble clef
• Names of lines/ spaces (treble staff)

Harmony

• Melodic ostinati
• Partner songs

Form

• AAB, AABA, Rondo
• Verse/ Refrain

Expression

• Orchestral instrument families
• Piano (p), forte (f)
• Crescendo/ decrescendo
• Orchestral Music: programmatic
• Indigenous music: Native American
• American music: slave songs, colonial folk songs

Other

• Age-appropriate pitch matching (B3-D5)¹
• Mallet/ drumming technique: alternating hands

Performing

• Perform original melodic patterns in do pentatonic as an introduction to a known song.
• Perform original rhythmic patterns on body percussion or unpitched percussion, containing eighth note, eighth rest, half note, half rest, whole note, whole rest, as an introduction to a known chant.

Creating

• Create a melody on pitched instruments using speech rhythms from a selected poem.
• Improvise with a partner in question/answer style, using pitched or unpitched percussion instruments.

Reading/ Writing

• Notate speech rhythms from a selected poem, using iconic or standard notation.
• Using music composition software, create an original composition based on a personally selected topic.

Responding/ Evaluating

• Refine compositions based on self-evaluation of a recorded performance.
• Indicate dynamic markings for original compositions.