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Mu4 Reading/Notating

Reading and notating music are fundamental musical skills, which involve the appropriate interpretation of various musical symbols and terms. Reading and notating skills develop through practicing, sight-reading, and transcribing music.

Mu4a The student will demonstrate appropriate skill level when sight-reading. This includes the reading of notes, key signatures, rhythms, dynamic markings/terms, tempo markings/terms, articulation markings/terms, musical map symbols/terms, and any other notational symbols and/or terms.

Examples of activities through which students might produce evidence of appropriate skill level while sight-reading include:

• Take an All-State audition that includes sight-reading.
• Audition for a school ensemble that requires sight-reading.

Mu4b The student will prepare a piece of music that demonstrates appropriate interpretation of all notes, key signatures, rhythms, musical map symbols, dynamics, tempo markings, and articulation markings.

Examples of activities through which students might produce evidence of appropriately interpreting a piece of music include:

• Prepare for and take an All-State audition.
• Participate in a general recital.
• Participate in a school assembly.
• Perform outside of school.

Mu4c The student will transcribe isolated rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic sequences using standard music notation.

Examples of activities through which students might produce evidence of transcribing isolated musical elements include:

• Transcribe a short tapped or clapped rhythm, given the types of rhythms to be used in the series.
• Transcribe a short series of notes, given the key signature and scale.
• Transcribe a simple harmonic progression using the I, IV, and V chords.

Mu4d The student will transcribe rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic elements from a recording or performance using standard music notation.

Examples of activities through which students might produce evidence of transcribing musical elements from a recording or performance include:

• Given a key, starting note, and time signature, transcribe a short melody played on a keyboard instrument. Rhythms must also be included.
• Create a lead sheet from a recording that gives the melody line (with correct rhythms) and chord symbols.
• Transcribe an improvised solo from a recording with chord changes.

Mu4e Given figured bass symbols, the student will be able to “realize” bass and inner musical lines according to 16th/18th Century part writing principles.

Examples of activities through which students might produce evidence of realizing figured bass include:

• Given a melody line with figured bass symbols, write a four-part arrangement that demonstrate good part writing skills (no parallel 5ths, no parallel octaves, solid bass line, etc.)
• Given a key signature, figured bass symbols, and a bass line, write a four-part arrangement that demonstrates good part writing skills.

Mu4f Given the score or a part for a piece of music, the student finds mistakes in the execution of melodic, rhythmic, and/or harmonic elements.

Examples of activities through which students might produce evidence of finding mistakes in music include:

• Review a recording of yourself with the written music and note where any mistakes occur.
• Listen to a piece of music for string quartet with the score and note where any mistakes occur.
  

 

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