| Curricular Competency |
Develop and refine technical and expressive skills |
Instrumental Music 11 |
Explore and create |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore a variety of contexts and their influences on musical works, including place and time |
Instrumental Music 11 |
Explore and create |
| Keyword: variety of contexts |
Elaboration: for example, personal, social, cultural, environmental, and historical contexts |
| Keyword: place |
Elaboration: Any environment, locality, or context with which people interact to learn, create memory, reflect on history, connect with culture, and establish identity. The connection between people and place is foundational to First Peoples perspectives on the world. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Study and perform a variety of musical styles and genres |
Instrumental Music 11 |
Explore and create |
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| Curricular Competency |
Adapt performance techniques, processes, and skills for use in innovative ways |
Instrumental Music 11 |
Explore and create |
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| Curricular Competency |
Improvise and take creative risks in instrumental music |
Instrumental Music 11 |
Explore and create |
| Keyword: Improvise |
Elaboration: spontaneously compose or embellish musical phrases, melodies, or excerpts; improvisation provides a means for high-level reasoning, creative thinking, and problem solving in a variety of ways |
| Keyword: take creative risks |
Elaboration: make an informed choice to do something where unexpected outcomes are acceptable and serve as learning opportunities |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore a composer’s musical and expressive intentions |
Instrumental Music 11 |
Explore and create |
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| Curricular Competency |
Perform in large ensemble, small ensemble, and solo contexts |
Instrumental Music 11 |
Explore and create |
| Keyword: large ensemble |
Elaboration: ensemble in which many musicians perform the same part (e.g., concert band, jazz band, string or symphony orchestra, guitar ensemble) |
| Keyword: small ensemble |
Elaboration: ensemble in which musicians play alone or with only a few others, performing a particular part (e.g., rock band or similar contemporary genre, jazz combo, brass quintet, string quartet) |
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| Big Ideas |
Contemporary music offers aesthetic experiences that can transform our perspective. |
Contemporary Music 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: aesthetic experiences |
Elaboration: emotional, cognitive, or sensory responses to works of art |
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| Big Ideas |
Enduring understanding of music is gained through perseverance, resilience, and risk taking. |
Contemporary Music 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
A musician’s interpretation of existing work is an opportunity to represent identity and culture. |
Contemporary Music 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
The nuances of musical expression are understood through deeper study and performance. |
Contemporary Music 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Music reflects aspects of time, place, and community. |
Contemporary Music 11 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
health and safety issues and procedures |
Contemporary Music 11 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism |
Contemporary Music 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: cultural appropriation |
Elaboration: use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, story, song, or drama, shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn |
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| Content |
history of a variety of musical genres |
Contemporary Music 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: history |
Elaboration: the influences across time of social, cultural, historical, political, and personal contexts on musical works; includes the influences of historical and contemporary societies on musical works |
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