CONNECTING

CA #10 - Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

• Essential Question: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?

• Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.

• What Students Should Be Doing: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make music.

CA #11 - Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding

• Essential Question: How do the other arts, other disciplines, contexts, and daily life inform creating, performing, and responding to music?

• Enduring Understanding: Understanding connections to varied contexts and daily life enhances musicians’ creating, performing, and responding.

• What Students Should Be Doing: Relate musical ideas and works to varied contexts and daily life to deepen understanding.

References

Boden, M. A. (2004). The creative mind: Myths and mechanisms. Psychology Press.

Haught-Tromp, C. (2017). The Green Eggs and Ham hypothesis: How constraints facilitate creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(1), 10.

Johnson-Laird, P. N. (1988). Freedom and constraint in creativity. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.),The nature of creativity (pp. 202–219). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2002). How jazz musicians improvise. Music Perception, 19, 415–442.

Stravinsky, I. (1947). Poetics of music in the form of six lessons (Vol. 66). Harvard University Press.