Grade 12 - Contemporary Music

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 12

Curricular Competency

Content

Big Ideas

Explore and create

Reason and reflect

Communicate and document

Connect and expand

Music communicates traditions, perspectives, worldviews, and stories.

Creative and technical proficiency in music is transferable across different aspects of our lives.

Music can be adapted to facilitate limitless expression and meaning.

Purposeful choices enhance the quality, artistry, and authenticity of musical processes.

Contemporary music offers aesthetic experiences that can transform our perspective.

Perform in both solo and ensemble contexts

Combine genres and styles to inspire innovation

Improvise and take creative risks in music

Explore new musical ideas by combining genres or styles

Explore a variety of contexts and their influences on musical works, including place and time

Adapt and refine technical and expressive skills

Analyze and interpret musician's use of technique, technology, and environment in musical composition, arranging, and performance, using musical language

Analyze music to identify and apply practice strategies

Consider and assess multiple interpretations of a musical excerpt

Refine creative and technical proficiency in the rehearsal process

Consider the function of their instrument, voice, or role within an ensemble or collaborative effort

Analyze styles of music to inform musical decisions

Document and compile resources to inform musical interpretation

Use musical vocabulary to respond to music

Receive, apply, and provide constructive feedback

Anticipate audience responses to a piece of music

Create musical symbols to enhance a musical performance

Develop gestural vocabulary that communicates musical intentions

Collaborate to express personal voice, cultural identity, and perspective through music

Demonstrate personal and social responsibility associated with creating, performing, and responding to music

Investigate the relationships between music and personal, social, or cultural change

Make connections through music on local, national, or global scales

Develop and refine a diverse repertoire of contemporary music that includes multiple perspectives and contexts

Relate musical selections to personal, social, or cultural issues

Combine technical knowledge, musical literacy, and contextual observation to make musical decisions

Evaluate and practise appropriate self-care to prevent performance-related injury

musical elements, principles, vocabulary, symbols, and theory

techniques, vocabulary, technologies, and context relevant to a particular idiom or genre

creative processes

movement, sound, image, and form

emerging and evolving trends in music

a variety of musical styles, genres, and traditions

roles of performer, audience, and venue

innovative artists from a variety of genres, movements, and cultures

traditional and contemporary First Peoples worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives, as communicated through music

history of a variety of musical genres

ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism

health and safety issues and procedures