HS Elective: Music Appreciation
How We Listen to Music
Essential Question:
In what ways can/do we experience music?
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World Music
Essential Question:
What does the music and instruments of various origins teach us about the cultures and their people?
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Elements of Music
Essential Question:
How do the elements of music work together to create a piece of art?
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Blues
Essential Question:
How do the Country Blues reflect the challenges of sharecropping, racial injustice, and rural poverty in early 20th century African-American life? How did the Great Migration spread southern culture, helping to give the blues a central place in American popular music? How did the electric guitar transform blues music from the 1940s forward?
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Jazz
Essential Question:
How did jazz music become and American music style? How is each sub-category of jazz both similar and different to its counterparts?
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Musical Theater
Essential Question:
What were precursors to the art of musical theater? What are the different kinds of musical theater? What are the key elements to putting on a musical?
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Today's Music
Essential Question:
How is the re-use and re-purposing of existing music at the heart of the Hip-Hop recording experience? What makes a work of art "original," and how does the use of "sampling" technology in Hip-Hop challenge perceptions of originality?
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Modified: 2020-05-19