GENERAL MUSIC
General Music/Performing Arts Class - Mr. Fulks
Creating Music | Performing Music | Responding to Music
This page is designed to provide an overview of the General Music classes taught by Mr. Fulks
This page is updated as necessary, so please check back periodically.
Creating Music | Performing Music | Responding to Music
This page is designed to provide an overview of the General Music classes taught by Mr. Fulks
This page is updated as necessary, so please check back periodically.
GENERAL MUSIC (Performing Arts)
Class schedule - (1) 60 minute class in a 6 day schedule
Building on the skills and concepts introduced in the lower levels, middle school students expand their range of musical understanding to including reading, writing and composing, basic improvisation, refining singing and playing skills individually and in groups. In addition, students will gain an understanding of historical periods and styles, expand their knowledge of instruments and electronics, vocabulary, and have opportunities for musical research, writing samples about music, short and long-term projects and performances.
Class schedule - (1) 60 minute class in a 6 day schedule
Building on the skills and concepts introduced in the lower levels, middle school students expand their range of musical understanding to including reading, writing and composing, basic improvisation, refining singing and playing skills individually and in groups. In addition, students will gain an understanding of historical periods and styles, expand their knowledge of instruments and electronics, vocabulary, and have opportunities for musical research, writing samples about music, short and long-term projects and performances.
What to look forward to:
All students will participate in an active learning environment. Student participation is a vital part of learning to be a music maker in addition to a consumer (listener). All students are expected to try their best and demonstrate progress throughout the year.
Skills & Concept based learning:
Reading Music | Writing Music | Composing Music | Performing Music
Piano | Percussion/Drumming | Music Technology | and more...
All students will participate in an active learning environment. Student participation is a vital part of learning to be a music maker in addition to a consumer (listener). All students are expected to try their best and demonstrate progress throughout the year.
Skills & Concept based learning:
Reading Music | Writing Music | Composing Music | Performing Music
Piano | Percussion/Drumming | Music Technology | and more...
Buttons for each grade will become active once classes begin and lessons require the use of technology
Guiding Principles:
An effective arts curriculum...
An effective arts curriculum...
- Provides a sequential program of instruction for all students beginning in Kindergarten and continuing through high school.
- Emphasizes development of students’ skills and understanding of creating, performing, and responding.
- Promotes knowledge and understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of the arts.
- Uses a variety of assessment methods to evaluate what students know and are able to do.
- Provides opportunities for students to make connections among the arts, with other disciplines within the core curriculum, and with arts resources in the community.
MA State Music Standards:
- Singing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
- Reading and Notation: Students will read music written in standard notation.
- Playing Instruments: Students will play instruments, alone and with others, to perform a varied repertoire of music.
- Improvisation and Composition: Students will improvise, compose, and arrange music.
- Critical Response: Students will describe and analyze their own music and the music of others using appropriate music vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect their analysis to interpretation and evaluation.
- Purposes and Meanings in the Arts: Students will describe the purposes for which works of dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and architecture were and are created, and, when appropriate, interpret their meanings.
- Roles of Artists in Communities: Students will describe the roles of artists, patrons, cultural organizations, and arts institutions in societies of the past and present.
- Concepts of Style, Stylistic Influence, and Stylistic Change: Students will demonstrate their understanding of styles, stylistic influence, and stylistic change by identifying when and where art works were created, and by analyzing characteristic features of art works from various historical periods, cultures, and genres.
- Inventions, Technologies, and the Arts: Students will describe and analyze how performing and visual artists use and have used materials, inventions, and technologies in their work. 10. Interdisciplinary Connections. Students will apply their knowledge of the arts to the study of English language arts, foreign languages, health, history and social science, mathematics, and science and technology/engineering.
