Download IB HL Music

SHS IB Curriculum
Name of Course: IB Music HL
Teacher (s): P.L. Malcolm
Level (HL or SL):HL
Length (1 or 2 years): 2 consecutive years
Most recent CAWS (Lake Tahoe) training: June 2016
Prescribed subjects/components: 6th Subject
Current course options/topics taught: The class is designed to teach fundamentals of music
theory, music history, world music, and an analysis of a IB prescribed music works.
Students work independently on solo performances and creating projects (compositions).
Students also research and write a mass media script on world music comparing
contrasting music cultures.
1.
General Curriculum:
Year 1 1st Nine Weeks - Music Theory
Defining Music
Pythagoras - Sounds and frequencies
Overtone Series
Music Alphabet - (location various instruments)
Notation System
Time and Duration
Basic Scales (major and minor)
Circle of 5ths (major and minor)
Intervals
Chords (triads, 7th chords, extensions)
Roman Numerals
Figured Bass and Inversions
Scale Degree Names
Functional Harmony (Harmonic Progressions)
"Rule of the Octave"
Cadences
Part Writing Rules/Voice Leading
Second Inversion Chords
Non Chord Tones
Secondary/Applied Dominants
Sequences
Augmented 6th chords
Neapolitan 6 chords
Symmetrical Scales and Modes
Pentatonic and Blues Scales
2nd Nine Weeks - Western Music History
Musicology vs. Ethnomusicology
Overview of the time bands
Prehistoric Music
Ancient Music
Dark Ages
Medieval Period
Renaissance Music
Baroque Period
Classical Period
Romantic Period
Impressionism
20th Century
Student will study the times through the lives of the following composers:
Palestrina, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,
Berlioz, Wagner, Chopin, Debussy, Stravinsky, Gershwin
3rd Nine Weeks - World Music
Students read from the Excursions of World Music and submit chapter review to the teacher.
Each student will do a presentation on world music taken from the Excursions book.
India, Middle East, China, Japan, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Latin America, Caribbean
Native America, Ethnic America
4th Nine Weeks - Listening Paper Preparations
Students research and write their Musical Links Investigation
Year 2 1st - 3rd Nine Weeks - Internal Assessments
Students practice individually and prepare for their 20 minute solo performance.
Students work on their 3 creating projects (1 creating project each nine weeks)
4th Nine Weeks - Listening Paper Preparations
Detailed analysis of the IB Prescribed works (usually in two year rotations)
Writing assignments based on the Musical Elements
Medium
Melody
Harmony
Meter
Form
Style
Context
Placing Music Elements in IB formats: Elements, Structural, and Contextual Information
2.
Information on the Internal Assessment (IA):
Higher level IB Music students submit a solo performance the second week of March.
Recordings must be 20 minutes in length.
Higher level IB Music students must submit three compositions or creating projects.
The creating projects are turned in prior to spring break.
Students have the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd nine weeks to work and complete these projects.
3. Integration of the Core (TOK, CAS, EE, Learner Profile, and ATL):
One example would be CAS (Creativity, Action, Service). Of the 8 CAS outcomes it is
very easy accomplish in music the following criteria by the end of the CAS program :
1. Increased students awareness of their strengths and area for growth,
2. Undertaken new challenges,
3. Plan and initiate activities,
4. Work collaboratively with others,
5. Show perseverance and commitment in their activities,
6. Engage with issues of global importance,
7. Considered the ethical implications of their actions,
8. Develop new skills.