Music - Musical Diffusion - The Anchorage Museum

Explore the history of music in Alaska, examining the means and methods of cultural diffusion and its impacts on the contemporary musical styles across the state by close-looking at three objects from the Anchorage Museum collection and by creating and exchanging made music.

Resource Information

Audience/Grade

2 3 4

Standards

Arts

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MU:RE7a-4 Explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences or purposes
MU:RE7b-4 Demonstrate and explain how responses to music are informed by the structure, use of the elements of music, context (personal, cultural, social)
MU:PR4-a Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, cultural background, knowledge, context, and technical skill
MU:PR4-b Explain how context (social and cultural) informs a performance
MU:CR1-4a . Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (personal and social/cultural)
MU:CR1-4b b. Generate musical ideas (rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (major and minor) and meters
MU:CR2-4a Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent and explain connection to purpose/context.
MU:CR2-4b Use standard or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas