Area of Inquiry 3

This area focuses on music used for dramatic effect, music that supports choreographed movement or dance and/or music that is incidental or intended to purposefully serve as entertainment.

Examples of relevant music materials may include the following genres.

• Music for film

• Music for ballet

• Musical theatre

Specific prompts for students might include the following.

• To what extent do personal, local and global contexts affect the creation, performance and perception of music?

• To what extent does my knowledge and understanding of music affect/have an impact on how I perceive music?

• To what extent does music created for a particular purpose (for example, television commercial) need to have aesthetic value?

• Are there types of music that are more appropriate for particular uses? (For example: Is a particular type of music better suited for dancing, for a sporting event/game?

• Are certain types of musical (compositional) devices/structures/genres more appropriate/better suited for music that was created for an expressed purpose (for example, a ballet or music for worship)?

• To what extent are there similar aesthetic responses from audience members (consumers of music) to a particular piece of music? (For example: Did everyone have a similar emotion/feeling when listening to a march or a gat?)