3x5 Card Composition

National Standards for Music Education
	Content Standard #4: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
		Achievement Standard a: Students compose music in several distinct styles, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.
		Achievement Standard c: Students compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usages of the sound sources.
		Achievement Standard d: Students compose music, demonstrating imagination and technical skill in applying the principles of composition.
	Content Standard #6: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
		Achievement Standard b: Students demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
		Achievement Standard c: Students identify and explain compositional devices and techniques used to provide unity and variety and tension and release in musical work and give examples of other works that make similar uses of these devices and techniques.
		Achievement Standard f: Students analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that makes it unique, interesting, and expressive.
	Content Standard #7: Evaluating music and music performances
		Achievement Standard b: Students evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation, by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
Maine Learning Results
	A. Creative Expression: Students will create and or perform to express ideas and feelings.
		4. Students will be able to use the elements and principles of design to demonstrate multiple solutions to specific performing arts problems.
Task
	Pass out cards or staff paper, explain the guidelines. Must stay in the given key Must use I, IV, and V chords (show notes involved on the board) Must start on the tonic and end with the IV or V. Must be four measures. Each student composes four measures by themselves employing as many of the elements of music as possible.(can use any rhythms or notes within the key) When everyone is done their 4 measure segment, form small groups to combine segments into a composition. Groups must arrange the segments in a manor that produces a composition that makes the most sense. (Arrange the segments into an simple form; ABA, Rondo,Sonata, etc. Employ as many elements of music as possible to make the composition expressive and interesting and logical. Each group will perform the composition for the rest of the class Class will evaluate the composition with a simple rubric.
	Evaluation Rubric
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