Music - Musicianship I - Matrix 2 - Grades 9-12 - 10 - 40 Weeks

1. Student will discriminate between Major and Minor Tonality

2. Students will discriminate between different types of meter

3. Students will understand primary harmonic relationships

4. Students will demonstrate literacy in using musical notation

5. Students will understand the historical evolution of music

Teacher materials, textbook, pre-recorded excerpts

Teacher Materials, textbook

Teacher materials, textbook

Teacher materials, Textbook, musical excerpts

Textbook, teacher-made materials

1.1 Singing major/minor
melodic patterns
1.2 singing tonic/subdominant/
dominant tonal patterns
in major/minor
1.3 students will define:
tonic, dominant, subdominant,
major, minor, tonal, atonal

2.1 Students will echo
rhythm patterns in duple
and triple meter
2.2 Students will use
rhythm syllables to
indicate beat and it’s
divisions
2.3 Students will define:
duple, triple, beat, meter,
simple, compound, rhythm

3.1 Students will perform
tonic/subdominant/
dominant patterns
given an established key
3.2 Students will notate
tonic/subdominant/
dominant patterns in
given major and minor
keys
3.3 Students will label
notated examples as
tonic, subdominant
and dominant

4.1 Students will label
tonic pitches in major
and minor for given
key signatures
4.2 Students will label
pitches given on a
grand staff
4.3 students will construct
major/minor scales
from a given tonic pitch
4.4 Students will
construct major/minor
/augmented/diminished
chords from a given
tonic pitch
4.5 Students will
perform simple notated
melodies and chords
using a keyboard

5.1 Students will label
and order periods of
music history in
chronological order
5.2 Students will listen
to and make judgments
about music from
different historical periods
5.3 Students will
classify composers from
given listings with and
appropriate period of
music history
5.4 Students will classify
unfamiliar musical works
given aurally with a
probable historical period
5.5 Students will listen
to musical examples
reflecting stylistic
tendencies of
composers from
different geographic
and cultural backgrounds