Understanding By Design Unit

Title of Unit
Curriculum Area
Developed By

Words to Music Arrangement

Music Education
Mr. Sandman

Grade Level
Time Frame

6-8
8 Hours

Identify Desired Results (Stage 1)

Content Standards

Arrange a short musical piece by manipulating melody, form, rhythm, and/or voicing. (MU.68.S.1.3)
Create a composition, manipulating musical elements and exploring the effects of those manipulations. (MU.68.O.2.1)
Describe how the combination of instrumentation and expressive elements in a musical work can convey a specific thought, idea, mood, and/or image.
(MU.68.O.3.1)
Create a composition and/or performance, using visual, kinesthetic, digital, and/or acoustic means to manipulate musical elements. (MU.68.F.1.1)
Describe how studying music can enhance citizenship, leadership, and global thinking. (MU.68.F.3.1)

Understandings

Essential Questions

Overarching Understanding

Overarching
How does music reinforce the lyrical
content of the composition?

Topical
What was the most important musical
aspect through the whole arrangement
process?

Related Misconceptions

Knowledge

Skills

Students will know

Students will engage with

Phrasing, transition, balance and tempo.

Using previous knowledge in the association of speech and organized sounds to
come up with a musical arrangement.

Procedures
Detail here all the steps for the lesson
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