It is expected that students will create, listen to, and perform music, demonstrating understanding of expressive and physical properties of harmony , texture , dynamics , tempo , timbre , and articulation . Improvise on chord progressions using notes from, for example, dominant seventh chords. Encourage students to display their work in class. Write articulation, dynamic, and tempo indications on examples of music that have no such markings.
Students then perform or record their choices.
As a class, discuss the effectiveness of each choice. During ensemble work, students discuss and achieve consensus on appropriate dynamics, articulations, and tempos for a piece of music, giving reasons for their preferences. In small ensembles, students perform compositions to demonstrate understanding of the elements of expression. Analyse students' large ensemble repertoire for the elements of expression. Listen to music examples from various historical and cultural contexts, and compare and contrast the use of elements of expression in the various examples.