Competency 12: Knowledge of Skills and Techniques in Music and Visual Arts
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Music | the art of arranging sounds in time & order to produce continuous, balanced, unified, and evocative composition. |
| Melody | the succession of notes in a music piece (a tune) |
| Rhythm | the variation of the length and accentuation of a series of sounds or other events (tempo, meter, and articulation) |
| Tempo | the speed of underlying beat used singly or in combination within a music selection |
| Pitch | governs melody and harmony, represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound |
| Timbre | the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production |
| Texture | considered one of the basic elements of music, and used to describe the amount of rhythms played at a specific time (monophony, homophony, and polyphony) |
| Visual Arts | art forms focusing on the creation of works that are primarily visual in nature. |
| voice | What is the most natural, personal, and adaptable instrument of expression for people? |
| Vocal Range | the measure of the extent of pitches that a human voice can produce. |
| age appropriate range and vocal abilities | What two things should teachers take into account when they select vocal literature? |
| Curwen Hand Signs | a set of hand symbols that correspond w/ Solfege; "Do a Deer" |
| Process of Immersion | a way in which children hear songs sung by parents, teachers, or on recordings ( as songs become more familiar, they begin to join in and sing) |
| Rote Teaching | a way to help students learn songs that involves imitation usually presented sequentially and repeated back by the children. |
| Genres | are categories for established forms of compositions |
| Rhythmic Pattern/ Drum Beat | a series of strikes on a percussion instrument |
| Divisive Rhythms | involve dividing a larger period of time into smaller rhythmic units. |
| Additive Rhythms | are involved when larger periods of time are constructed from smaller rhythmic units added at the end of the previous unit. |
| practice and training | What is required for the mastery of music? |
| Rhythmic instruments | triangles, tambourines, blocks, and sticks |
| Melodic Instruments | melody bells and simple flutes |
| Harmonic Instruments | chording instruments (like the autoharp) |
| Non-pitched or untuned | What is another identification for some percussion instruments? |
| Rhythmic Notation | a term used to specify the exact rhythm in which to play the indicated chords. |
| Staff | a set of 5 horizontal lines and four spaces representing a different musical pitch |
| Harmonic Notation | Refers to the key (major or minor) in which the music is written; refers to the individual pure sounds |
| sharp and flat | What two signs are used after the clef sign to notate keys? |
| lower | Which figure indicates the unit of measurement, upper or lower? |
| upper | Which figure indicates the number of such units in each bar, upper or low? |
| drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpting, etc. | Name three different mediums related to art works: |
| line, color, shape, form, texture, and/or balance | Name three principles related to art design used to express meaning and emotions: |
| crayons, pencils, pen, scissors, fabric, brushes,pastel, etc. | Name three materials that could be used for art design: |
| Red, Yellow, Blue | What are the primary colors? |
| Purple, Orange, Green | What are the secondary colors? |
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