Using Responding, Performing, Creating, and Connecting to Inspire Personal Creating and Preserving Band, Proficient Level

NAfME Teaching with Primary Sources Curriculum Units for the 2014 Music Standards

This Unit aligns to the Proficient Level standards and assumes students have completed an equivalent of 3–5 years of study in an ensemble in addition to core or general music. This Unit has been developed in conjunction with the more rigorous Band Advanced Unit, which can be used to extend instruction for varied levels of learning. The instrumentation of the small ensembles is flexible and designed to allow for any combination of musicians. This Unit is suitable for instruction in multiple delivery methods (in-person, hybrid, online). The Unit focuses on the overarching concept of “Who owns music.” Students will learn about and interact with the concept of copyright and how to protect and preserve creative contributions. Lessons provide opportunities for students to use their identity to inform exploration of primary source artifacts. They use artifacts to inspire their creative vision and support formation of their Creative Team. Students will write inspired commission requests and learn about programming to purposefully construct an impactful program with a unified theme. Students convey their individual and Creative Teams expressive intent by writing program notes for their proposed concert.