About this subject
Year 9 Music looks to build on the skills developed and introduced in Year 7 and 8 Music. We start to focus heavily on developing your ear and building your ability to convert sounds into music notation and vice versa. We recommend that you’re learning an instrument (either at the College or externally) when undertaking Year 9 music, as you will be required to perform for the class as a soloist and come together to form a class ensemble. Each week we rehearse as a Boomwhacker ensemble and a ‘Rock Band’, preparing for performances both in the Quad and formally in Year 9 Performing Arts Evenings.
Year 9 Music introduces the elements of music, which we unpack through Composition and Listening Analysis activities, in order to expand your vocabulary when talking and writing about what you can hear. We create a folio for each of these areas to be presented for assessment.
Types of learning activities
- Listening Comparison Activities and Folio
- Composition, Genre and Elements of Music based activities
- Boomwhacker ensemble
- Preparing group pieces for performance
- Coolock Performance Evening
- Performing solo for the class
- Singing activities to train aural awareness
- History of Musicals
This subject may lead to
Year 10 Music
VCE Music Units 1 & 2
VCE Music Unit 3 & 4
students chooes either
VCE Music Contemporary Performance Units 3 & 4
or
VCE Music Repertoire Performance Units 3 & 4
Who do I contact to find out more?
Mrs Deb Ross: dross@cmc.vic.edu.au