Year 10 Music

updated Feb 2022

In this 20 week course, students develop fluency, musicianship, and technical control as they rehearse and present individual and group performances. They play and sing individually and in groups, using appropriate techniques and performance practices. They reflect on and evaluate their own performances and make critical judgments about the interpretation of music in others’ performances. Students prepare, rehearse, refine, present, and direct musical works. They listen to, read, and interpret music, and they develop understandings of composers’ and arrangers’ intentions and of cultural protocols. They explore how technologies contribute to performance, and they record their own and others’ performances


Students will prepare, rehearse, present, record, and evaluate individual and group performances of contrasting pieces, in keeping with the composers’ intentions and in style.

Learning Outcomes

  • Produce a performance that demonstrate careful preparation, demonstrates thoughtful presentation and interpretation.

  • Perform Clearly and accurately with the ability to convey and create mood to the audience

  • Show evidence of technical ability for their chosen instrument

Contact Mr McDonald at Greymouth High School for more information - mcdonaldm@greyhigh.school.nz

Week 1-3

  • Select a song to perform as a group

  • Secure rhythm and pulse of music

  • Provide evidence of the emerging musical personality

  • Identify areas for development

  • Seek feedback on performance

  • Evaluate performances from other groups

  • Critique the fluency, musicianship, style and the interpretation of the music

Week 4-6

  • accurate and fluent performance of music

  • demonstrate confident and commanding performance that communicates intention of music

Week 7 - 10

  • Solid command of technique

  • Control over intonation

  • Good projection of sound

  • Interaction with the audience

  • Respond quickly to inaccuracies