Composition refers to the organisation of sounds.
The development of knowledge and skills in composing results from continued involvement in a wide range of experiences in class activities. This includes such activities as providing melodic and non-melodic ostinato patterns to songs, adding a bass line to a song, improvising, creating variations on existing melodies or rhythms. These activities could range from the simple to the more complex and at times involves smaller tasks which can be later synthesised into the creation of whole pieces of music.
Development of compositional skills should represent stylistic understanding of the contexts studied. Students will communicate musical ideas with increasing confidence, accuracy and discrimination.
Students should have experiences in:
• experimenting
• improvising
• arranging
• structuring
• notating
• using different types of technology.