Music Curriculum

6th Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will compose using DAW (digital audio workstation) and investigate how their personal experiences are shaped and defined by music.

Outcomes and Components:

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.

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Standard(s)

  FA.6M.2.1 Identify the function and form of a social/cultural movement. MU:Re.7.2.6b
  FA.6M.2.2 Identify and analyze pieces of music that were inspired by social/cultural movements. MU:Pr4.2.6c, MU:Re7.2.6a, MU:CN11.0.5a
  FA.6M.2.3 Investigate the impact that writing music inspired by social/cultural movements had on the composers and/or their community. MU:Pr4.2.6c, MU:Re8.1.6a, MU:CN11.0.5a
  FA.6M.2.4 Choose a piece of current music that has been inspired/impacted by a social/cultural movement and present it. MU:Pr4.1.6a, MU:Re.7.1.6a. MU:CN11.0.5a

Academic Vocabulary: Identify, Investigate, Choose

Content Vocabulary: Social Movements, Cultural Music