8. Understanding relationships between music,the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

Concepts and Skills

In order to be successful at this standard what do students need to know? 

• What do the “other arts” and “disciplines outside the arts” include?

◦ "Other arts"

▪ dance

▪ visual art

▪ sculpture

▪ painting

▪ video art

▪ theater

▪ stage

▪ TV

▪ movies

◦ Disciplines outside the arts

▪ literature

▪ poetry

▪ prose

▪ creative writing

▪ science

▪ philosophy

▪ math

▪ technology

• How the arts evoke feelings and emotion from the observer.

• How the creative processes of music are similar/different to the other arts

• How direction in music and the other arts is similar/different

• How the relationship between music and the other arts is symbiotic, and how the relationship between ALL of the other arts is symbiotic.

• How is music related to subjects outside the arts?

◦ Does music interplay with science? Math? History? etc.

◦ In what ways does music interplay with other non-arts subjects 

Activities

What kind of activities should students be able to do to complete this standard? (How will you teach it?)

Daily/Weekly

• Identify any elements of music being played that relates to other arts

◦ Is the music related to a dance form (a minuet, for example)

◦ Is it based on literature (a poem or story)?

• Rehearse pieces are used to enhance other art forms

◦ Ballet

◦ Opera accompaniment

◦ Music played on Broadway

◦ Movie soundtracks

• Identify music that links directly to artistic movements

◦ Impressionism

◦ Romanticism

◦ Renaissance

◦ Baroque

◦ etc.

• Observe live/watch on video the other arts to see when music is utilized to enhance the art being observed.

• Discuss aspects of motion in rhythm/timing

• Describe music in non-musical terms

Projects (Deeper Learning)

• Have students research a specific art form or discipline and find a piece of music that relates to it

• View presentations of artistic movements which encompass each of the four fine arts (ie, impressionism)

• Build a functioning speaker from homemade materials

• Engineer a recording of a classmate’s band/chamber ensemble

• Participate in marching band

• Physics:

◦ Describe the physical basis of tone production for:

▪ strings

▪ winds

▪ brass

▪ woodwonds

▪ percussion

▪ electronic instruments

▪ the human voice 

◦ How viscosity of instrumental lubricants & friction from rosin affect playing

• Math:

◦ Why is proper intonation so integral to playing?

◦ Why is bad intonation so detrimental?

◦ The concept of the fundamental pitch and the overtone series

• Language Arts

◦ Compare the ability of music and literature to convey images, feelings, and meanings.

• Listen to and discuss TV/Movie/Video Game Soundtracks

• Participate as a small ensemble providing live music at an event

◦ art showing

◦ dance recital

• Identify the elements of a particular discipline: compare and contrast these elements with the five elements of music

◦ Examples:

▪ Elements of Music: Form, Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, Timbre

▪ Elements of Dance: movement, time, space, energy, body

▪ Elements of Theater: plot, character, idea, language, music, spectacle

◦ How are the elements of each art intertwined?

◦ How does music enhance non-musical arts?