Grade 11 - Instrumental Music

Instrumental Music 11 (includes Concert Band 11, Orchestra 11, Jazz Band 11, Guitar 11)

Curricular Competency

Content

Big Ideas

Explore and create

Reason and reflect

Communicate and document

Connect and expand

Music reflects aspects of time, place, and community.

The nuances of musical expression are understood through deeper study and performance.

A musician's interpretation of existing work is an opportunity to represent identity and culture.

Enduring understanding of music is gained through perseverance, resilience, and risk taking.

Instrumental music offers aesthetic experiences that can transform our perspective.

Perform in large ensemble, small ensemble, and solo contexts

Explore a composer's musical and expressive intentions

Improvise and take creative risks in instrumental music

Adapt performance techniques, processes, and skills for use in innovative ways

Study and perform a variety of musical styles and genres

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

Develop and refine technical and expressive skills

Analyze and interpret musicians use of technique, technology, and environment in musical composition and performance, using musical language

Reflect on personal rehearsal and performance experiences and musical growth

Consider the function of their instrument or role within the ensemble

Analyze styles of music to inform musical decisions

Document and share musical works and experiences in a variety of contexts

Use musical vocabulary in response to musical experiences and by observing context

Receive and apply constructive feedback

Use discipline-specific language to communicate and interpret ideas

Express personal voice, cultural identity, and perspective through music

Express emotions and ideas through music

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

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

Explore personal, educational, and professional opportunities in music or music-related industries

Explore the relationships between the arts, culture, and society

Demonstrate safe care, use, and maintenance of instruments and equipment

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

musical elements, principles, vocabulary, symbols, and theory

techniques specific to individual or families of instruments, including:

winds

percussion

keyboard

orchestral strings

guitar

technical skills, strategies, and technologies

creative processes

movement, sound, image, and form

influences of time and place on the emergence of musical forms

roles of performer, audience, and venue

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

contributions of innovative artists from a variety of genres, contexts, periods, and cultures

history of a variety of musical genres

ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism

health and safety issues and procedures