Music Curriculum
6th Grade
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Course Purpose: |
Students will compose using DAW (digital audio workstation) and investigate how their personal experiences are shaped and defined by music. |
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Outcome # |
Outcome |
| FA.6M.1 | Students will discuss and analyze the qualities and functions of the main types of singing voices, both aurally and verbally, and differentiate between the types of roles and characters each has historically portrayed. |
| FA.6M.2 | Students will analyze the music of a variety of composers, making connections between the composers’ music and the various social movements that influenced it. |
| FA.6M.3 | Students will, through a survey of music history, identify and compose music in various historical forms and compare and contrast, verbally and aurally, the various stylistic elements of each period. |
| FA.6M.4 | Students will perform a selection of appropriate vocal and instrumental music, in large and small groups, from a variety of cultures and traditions, for an audience of peers, family, and teachers. |
| FA.6M.5 | Students will create a musical self-portrait, using technological tools to collect and synthesize a collection of musical works that represent their lived experiences. |
| FA.6M.6 | Students will identify and discuss the function of stylistic and theoretical elements of music, through analysis and performance of various classroom songs. |
| FA.6M.7 | Students will, on both pitched and unpitched instruments, choose, improvise and compose basic instrumental works. |
| FA.6M.8 | Using a digital audio workstation (DAW), students will create a musical work that follows a self-created narrative. |