Music 2206

Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place, and Community

Overall Expectations:

GCO 3: Students will be expected to demonstrate critical awareness of and value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture.

Specific Expectations:

  • 8.0 demonstrate an understanding of the role of music in daily life
  • 9.0 explore, examine and demonstrate respect for music across a broad range of contexts

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Overall Expectations:

GCO 4: Students will be expected to respect the contributions of individuals and cultural groups in local and global contexts, and value the arts as a record of human experiences and expression.

Specific Expectations:

  • 4.401 recognize the importance of the musical contributions of individuals to their communities
  • 4.402 respect the contribution of cultural groups to music in the global community
  • 4.403 demonstrate an understanding of the power of music to shape, express, and communicate ideas and feelings throughout history
  • 13.0 demonstrate an understanding of the power of music to shape, express, and communicate ideas, experiences and feelings

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Perceiving, Reflecting, and Responding

Overall Expectations:

GCO 6. Students will be expected to apply critical thinking and problem-solving strategies to reflect on and respond to their own and others’ expressive work.

Specific Expectations:

  • analyse and respond personally to an extended variety of musical styles, forms, and genres
  • evaluate their own musical insights and aesthetic responses in the context of other critical commentary
  • 17.0 analyze and respond to a variety of advanced music, their own and others, using appropriate terminology

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Overall Expectations:

GCO 8: Students will be expected to analyse the relationship between artistic intent and the expressive work.

Specific Expectations:

  • reflect critically on meanings, ideas, and values associated with particular music compositions and performances
  • analyse how consideration of the intended audience affects the musical work
  • interpret the relationship between intention and outcome in their own and others’ work
  • 21.0 examine the relationship between intention and outcome in musical works

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