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Year 12 Music Performance
Duration: Full Year
Duration: Full Year
Students perform music to demonstrate musical influences of an existing style and/or performer on their own works, and create/arrange short music works that include identifiable influences from an existing work/performer/style, which they are able to explain. Students develop aural skills by responding to music from a range of sources across time and place, comparing their music characteristics. They analyse music works and/or styles and explore how they have influenced their own music making. They develop an understanding of how the treatment of music elements, concepts and compositional devices in one work and/or style can be identified and explained in their own works.
Students perform music to demonstrate musical influences of an existing style and/or performer on their own works, and create/arrange short music works that include identifiable influences from an existing work/performer/style, which they are able to explain. Students develop aural skills by responding to music from a range of sources across time and place, comparing their music characteristics. They analyse music works and/or styles and explore how they have influenced their own music making. They develop an understanding of how the treatment of music elements, concepts and compositional devices in one work and/or style can be identified and explained in their own works.
COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE OUTLINE
Unit 3: Influence in Music
Unit 3: Influence in Music
In this unit, through music making and responding, students focus on connections between music created in different times and/or places and the influence(s) of one on the other. Their music making involves the integrated music experiences of performing, creating and responding. They compose, arrange, interpret, reimagine, improvise, recreate, perform and critique music in a scaffolded manner leading to their project in Unit 4, becoming more autonomous and self-directed and less dependent on teacher direction and support.
Unit 4: Music Performance
Unit 4: Music Performance
Students deepen their understanding of the influence of music at a personal level. They move from considering and reflecting on the influences in the works of others to applying new understandings of influence in their own music making. They are increasingly able to deliberate on and articulate their thinking and choices. Their music making continues to focus on integrated music experiences and they become increasingly autonomous and self-directed after the modelling they experienced in Unit 3.
Students choose their own Area of Investigation.
This may be:
a style
a performer
a creator
a musical genre.
OUTCOMES
OUTCOMES
Unit Three
Unit Three
Outcome 1
Outcome 1
Perform a short work in the style of a selected work/creator from Area of Study 2 and explain how their performance relates to the selected music style and/or creator. Create and/or arrange music and demonstrate the connection to the selected music style and/or creator.
Outcome 2
Outcome 2
Analyse and describe the treatment of music elements, concepts and compositional devices in two works, discussing how one work has influenced the other, and formulating and presenting a proposal for an Area of Investigation for Unit 4.
Outcome 3
Outcome 3
Listen and respond to selected music excerpts from a range of styles and identify, describe and discuss the musical characteristics of each, and compare similarities and differences.
Unit Four
Unit Four
Outcome 3 Aurally analyse music and make critical responses to music.
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