MUSIC
WORKSHOP
N700
Half Year (9-12) (1/2 credit) (rank weight 1.0)
Prerequisite: None
This course is designed
to meet the Art/Music graduation requirement. It will offer “hands-on”
music-making experiences with various instruments (as available): computers,
keyboards, guitars, dulcimers, and percussion instruments.
Areas of Study
Include:
• Composition
• Basic Theory
• Musical styles
• Performance
• Musical Theater
• Music Technology
• Career options
Assessment: Student
evaluation is reflected in the music grade, a composite of a student’s
participation and achievement in assignments and assessments. The grade may be
derived from objective and subjective teacher evaluations and observations,
including students’ demonstration of criteria-based skills and techniques in
performance and home assignments.
MUSIC WORKSHOP meets every day for 42 minutes for the Fall
Semester Only. This is a
project-oriented class in which the students will be given guidelines and
requirements for individual and group tasks. Students are encouraged to take
advantage of the presented project possibilities offered in this class in order
to broaden their musical perspective. Project outlines will be presented to the
class during the first week of class. Projects will be monitored by the
instructor and guided as necessary. All projects will be presented on a regular
basis to the class as a whole.
Due
to the subject material to be taught in class, students are expected to come
prepared to class with loose-leaf paper in a binder, paper, pencils, and
completed homework assignments.
After
school help and review is available by appointment. All students are welcome to
attend, and encouraged to come as often as they like.
Students
will be given class assignments and homework regularly. Tests will be given at
the conclusion of each quarter. All assignments, homework, tests and projects
will be weighted as follows:
Assignments: 30% Homework:
30% Tests: 20% Projects: 20% Total: 100%
THIS HAND OUT IS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE FRONT OF YOUR
MUSIC WORKSHOP BINDER.
MUSIC WORKSHOP Outcomes
and Performance Indicators
Wappingers Central School
District
ABILITIES
OUTCOMES (Apply the following to each content outcome)
1. APPLY ABILITIES TO MUSIC
A. HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS:
Use thinking skills in music: classify, decide, compare,
analyze, predict, generalize
B. GOAL
SETTING/ATTAINMENT: Set goals and reach
them by following a plan: brainstorm, dream, plan, organize, persist
C. COMMUNICATIONS: Talk and write about music using music
vocabulary
D. QUALITY PROCESS: Use the quality process in creating and
performing music (plan, draft,
analyze, revise, evaluate)
2. APPLY MUSIC SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
A. Be able to enjoy music through listening
and performing
B. Understand the creative process and be able
to create and improvise music
C. Be able to evaluate and give your opinion
about music
D. Be able to respond to music in an emotional
and physical manner
E. Be able to use available technology to
create and perform music
F. Understand the interrelationship between
music and history and music and the other disciplines
G. Understand music as an expression of many
cultures
H. Be able to create a quality, expressive
performance
I. Be able to use instruments, equipment, and
materials in a respectful and appropriate manner
J. Know about music careers
UNIVERSL
OUTCOME: BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE PROPER PERFORMANCE AND AUDIENCE ETIQUETTE
A. Attend all performances on time
B. Dress appropriately
C. Stay for the entire concert
D. Be attentive, still, and quiet as a
performer and audience member
E. Enter or leave the audience only between
groups
F. Show appreciative and respectful attention
to the performance of others
G. Adhere to the individual auditorium rules
H. Evaluate concert performances (yours and
others), and develop and use strategies to improve
CONTENT
OUTCOMES
1. POSSESS LISTENING SKILLS IN MUSIC
A. Be able to critically analyze and evaluate
recordings and performances
B. Be able to identify and analyze form
C. Be able to identify timbres aurally
D. Be able to recognize and compare music of
various genres, styles, and cultures
E. Be able to recognize the communication of
emotional content in music
F. Be able to describe how movement can
communicate a story line and emotion
2. BE ABLE TO PERFORM AT A RECREATIONAL LEVEL
A. Be able to read and perform five note
melodies
B. Be able to read and perform harmony
consisting of I, IV, and V chords
C. Be able to read rhythm, melody and harmony
D. Be able to analyze and evaluate own and
other’s performances
3. BE ABLE TO COMPOSE MUSIC
A. Be able to notate and perform rhythm
compositions
B. Be able to notate and perform melodies
C. Be able to harmonize original melodies
using I, IV, and V chords
D. Be able to compose, visually
display/notate, and perform sound compositions
E. Be able to defend own and other’s work
quality using music terms
4. BE ABLE TO USE COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE***
A. Be able to use a computer to compose and
alter melodies
B. Be able to record compositions already
composed
C. Be able to create electronic music using
available resources
***When technology becomes available to the Music
Workshop classroom