Pitt County Schools
521032 Music Appreciation I
Instructional Guide
Time Frame: 1st Marking Period
SCOS GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS, BENCHMARKS, AND
SKILLS
Music in Our Culture
6.01, 7.01, 7.03, 8.01, 9.01, 9.02, 9.04
What kind of music do you like? Describe
the style.
How would you describe two compositions in
different styles and from different historical
periods?
Haydn and Mozart are associated with what
musical period?
When and where did the musical style we call
“jazz” first develop?
What are some of the characteristics of jazz?
Identify three internal characteristics of
music?
What earlier culture did Classical musicians
and artists look back to for inspiration?
Why is it possible to distinguish between
classical music and jazz simply by listening to
it?
Music in Other Cultures
2.01-2.03, 3.01, 5.01, 6.01-6.06, 7.017.03, 8.01, 9.01-9.05
What invention made music from around the
world accessible to everyone?
Why are we unable to know very much about
the music of very early cultures?
What are some of the ways we can know a
little about the music of early peoples?
ESSENTIAL TASKS,
STRATEGIES, PROJECTS,
CONNECTIONS
Explain how a person
might develop perceptive
listening.
How do you believe your
personal musical taste
developed?
What are some of the ways
you might expand your
musical taste to included
different kinds of music?
Social Studies Connection:
Find out more about the
social conditions of
African Americans in the
1800s and early 1900s.
Art Connection: Create
original drawings or find
examples of period art that
“illustrate” the styles of the
classical concerto and
popular song heard in this
lesson.
Identify similarities
between the African Lala
music and the Mexican
musical examples.
In your own words, explain
the “rhythmic shifting” in
RECOMMENDED
RESOURCES
AND
ASSESSMENT
Glencoe/McGra
w Hill series:
“Music—its Role
and Importance
in Our Lives”
which includes
the teacher’s
manual, resource
binder; teacher’s
annotated
textbook, and
cds.
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Ancillary
materials
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What instruments are typical to the music
Vera Cruz and to the music of Jalisco?
What is one of the most obvious differences
between the singing style in Western opera
and Peking opera?
From the Audience’s Perspective
6.01-6.07, 7.01-7.03, 8.03
Violins and guitars can be classified as what
kind of instruments?
Name three aerophones.
Why and how can headphones be harmful?
Virtuoso Performers
5.01, 6.01-6.06, 7.01-7.03, 9.01, 9.03
On which instrument was Paganini a
virtuoso?
What were some of Liszt’s musical
accomplishments?
What aspect of their childhoods did Liszt and
Mozart have in common?
What musical accomplishments did Liszt and
Paganini have in common?
The Beauty of Order
2.01, 2.02, 3.01, 3.04, 4.01, 4.04, 5.015.04, 6.01-6.06, 7.01-7.03, 8.01, 8.03,
9.01, 9.03
What is the usual form for an American
popular song?
What is binary form?
Why was the opening pattern of Beethoven’s
Fifth Symphony used to symbolize victory
during the Second World War?
How is a fugue different from a canon?
the Mexican son jalisciense
“La Negra.”
For Connections across the
curriculum, see page 31 in
the teacher’s annotated
edition.
Describe four levels of
experiencing music.
Name the one category of
instruments that would not
be found in ancient
cultures and explain why
not.
How might you go about
improving your own
critical skills?
In what sense are the
mental and physical tasks
required of a sports star
and a virtuoso musician
similar?
Describe some of the
nonmusical aspects that
can influence a listener’s
judgment?
How does imitation give a
piece of music a sense of
unity?
What musical element
gives both marches and
rags a sense of
cohesiveness?
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Research a
composer
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Time Frame: 2nd Marking Period
Love Songs
1.01, 1.03, 2.01, 4.01, 4.03, 5.01-5.03,
6.01-6.06, 7.01-7.03, 8.01, 8.03, 9.01-9.04
What are the three basic messages
communicated in most love songs?
Why do C sharp and D flat sound the same on
the piano keyboard?
What nineteenth-century European vocal style
influenced the type of Mexican love song
called canción ranchera?
The Music of Celebration
What is unusual about the lyrics of Irving
2.01-2.03, 3.01-3.02, 5.01-5.05, 6.01-6.06, Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz?”
7.01-7.03, 8.01, 8.03, 9.02, 9.03, 9.04
What musical element of “the Star-Spangled
Banner” is not typical for a national anthem?
Identify at least three occasions on which
Americans join in public celebration with
appropriate music.
What band instrument is not usually found in
an orchestra?
Making Musical Decisions
Why might a composer begin a composition
1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 3.01,
with a specific musical form?
3.02, 3.04, 4.01, 4.03, 4.04, 5.01, 5.04,
Which music genre had the most effect on the
6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.04, 6.05, 6.06, 8.01,
development of Western popular music?
8.02, 8.03, 9.01, 9.02, 9.03
What was the new method of composition
developed by Arnold Schoenberg?
Musical Creators
1.01, 1.04, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 4.01, 5.015.03, 6.01-6.04, 6.06, 7.01, 7.03, 8.01,
8.05, 9.01-9.03
Where was Aaron Copland living when he
became determined to express his American
roots in his music?
What famous American instrumentalist
commissioned Copland’s Clarinet Concerto?
What piano style inspired Libby Larsen’s
Four on the Floor?
Tell why it is so easy to
seen the interval pattern of
the major scale on a
keyboard.
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Describe some of the
reasons why the songs of
Irving Berlin became and
have remained so popular
with Americans.
What are some possible
reasons why bands do not
use stringed instruments?
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What are some of the
reasons the Balinese Kecak
is so powerful to an
audience?
In your own words,
describe the harmonic
structure of a typical 12bar blues song.
What are some of the
similarities and differences
between the music of the
three composers in this
chapter?
In what way was Duke
Ellington’s approach to
songwriting different from
that of most popular
songwriters?
Social Studies and Visual
Art connections on p. 387.
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Quizzes
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Time Frame: 3rd Marking Period
Musical Theater
1.01, 1.04, 5.01, 5.03, 6.01, 6.02, 6.04,
6.05, 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 8.01, 9.02, 9.03,
9.04
What is the principal difference between
opera and the Broadway musical?
Where did Rodgers and Hammerstein find the
story for their musical Carousel?
Why is it necessary to create careful
transitions between dialogue and singing in a
musical?
Music of Our Generation
2.01, 2.04, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01-6.06, 7.01,
7.03, 8.01, 9.01, 9.03, 9.04
How dies visualization impact our way of
hearing music?
What kind of music is B. B. King know for?
Name two musical influences on the
minimalist style of Philip Glass.
Jazz
1.01, 1.04, 2.01, 3.01-3.03, 5.01-5.03,
6.01-6.06, 7.01-7.03, 9.01, 9.03, 9.04
Which early twentieth-century musician has
been called the first great jazz composer?
What characteristic is common to Dixieland
jazz music?
What was Fletcher Henderson’s contribution
to the development of swing?
Styles Influencing Styles
1.01, 1.04, 2.01, 2.04, 4.01-4.03, 5.015.03, 6.01-6.06, 7.01, 7.03, 9.01-9.04
Name at least four classical composers of the
19th and 20th centuries whose music was often
inspired by folk songs.
What Russian composer also used ragtime as
inspiration for one of his pieces?
Why were many South African musicians
exiled during the struggle against apartheid?
Why are some dramatic
stories better told with
music?
What is the difference
between the endings of
Carousel and the original
play? Why did Rodgers
and Hammerstein alter the
original?
Language Arts and Science
connections on page 417.
How has urbanization
affected the music created
in our society?
In your own words,
describe the development
and purpose of rap music.
Visual Arts and Language
Arts connections on p. 485.
Describe how jazz had
roots in African-American
brass bands as early as
1812.
What do jazz breaks have
in common with the
cadenzas of the classical
concerto?
Science and Visual Art
connections on p. 527.
How does music benefit
from the crossover and
mixing of musical styles?
How can music benefit
from acculturation?
How did the assimilation
of European elements into
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Critique a
musical
Performance at a
Pitt County High
School or at
ECU
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A Unique Record of Humankind
5.01, 6.01, 6.06, 8.01, 8.03, 9.01, 9.02,
9.04
What discovery led to greater awareness of
the plight of whales?
Why was music one of the cultural elements
sent to outer space on the Voyager
spacecrafts?
Identify at least five human needs that are
expressed in music.
South African choral music
enrich the South African
musical style?
Science and Math
connections on p. 577.
Why is musical
Text and
communication particularly Ancillary
important in America?
materials
Describe the benefits of
listening to and making an
effort to understand
unfamiliar music.
What the implications for
world peace in the sharing
of music of divers
cultures?
Science and Language Arts
connections on p. 591.
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