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Curriculum Focus

Arts practice

With guidance and support from teachers, students explore music ideas, using sounds from various sources. They experiment with ways of changing and combining acoustic and electronic sounds by arranging, for example, acoustic and synthesised or sampled sounds to create works on a given theme.

Students explore their feelings about and understandings of their environment by manipulating the expressive qualities of sound to find creative solutions to given tasks. They re-create the works of others individually and in groups. They improvise and compose, incorporating influences from their own and other cultures, times and places to create individual and group works. For example, they experiment with pentatonic or created scales, using different instrumental combinations, rhythmic patterns and structures.

Students learn to use specific techniques to perform a wide-ranging repertoire of unison and part songs, singing expressively with appropriate breath control, phrasing and interpretation. They create musical statements using a process of selecting, matching and combining the elements of music; for example, using music authoring software to compose rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic accompaniments to known songs or instrumental works. They use conventional and non-conventional notation to represent sounds of different pitch, duration, metre and volume in their own compositions.

Students develop an understanding of the purpose of works and their roles as performers. Students participating in an instrumental or vocal program develop their technical and performance skills and use them in a range of contexts.

Responding to the arts

Students identify and discuss musical features of a range of works, including those by contemporary composers. They discuss music from different cultures. They describe sounds of different pitch, duration, tone color, dynamics and texture using appropriate terminology. They perform a range of their own and others’ works to different audiences. They discuss and evaluate the effectiveness of their own performances. Students listen to and talk about works from a variety of styles and times. In their discussions they explore the purposes for which music is composed. Students discuss the style, purpose and context of their own compositions and evaluate their effectiveness orally and in writing.