Music and Sound

Relevance:

Relevance:

- Leverages an engagement with art to explore music, sound, and composition across history and cultures

- Fosters close looking, critical thinking, and analysis through observation and discussion of harmony, rhythm, ornament, and form across media

- Enhances visual literacy and observation skills, providing students with skills needed to grasp all available information and form well-rounded conclusions

Subthemes:

- Making Music

- Instruments & Tools of Sound

- Musical Artists & Performers

- Composition

- Representing Sound, Harmony, Rhythm, & Ornament