Lesson 1 (February 9, 11, 2022)

Lesson 1: Orientation

• Course components

  • Music Journal

  • 3 Musical roles

    • Researcher

      • students learn to investigate music in authentic ways, including aural, kinesthetic and scholarly research

    • Creator

      • students make music by composing, improvising and arranging

    • Performer

      • students develop their skills in practical music-making and delivery, including interpretation, expression and technical proficiency

  • 4 Area of Inquiry

    • 1: Music for sociocultural and political expression

    • 2: Music for listening and performance

    • 3: Music for dramatic impact, movement and entertainment

    • 4: Music technology in the electronic and digital age

  • 3 Musical context

    • Personal context

      • includes music that has significance to the student, and that they are most familiar with

      • students consider their immediate cultural context and interests that contribute to their emerging musical identity

    • Local context

      • includes music that has local significance, but that may be unfamiliar to the student

      • can be music from within the student's local, regional or cultural communities, and may include music that the student is not currently engaged with

    • Global context

      • includes unfamiliar music from a variety of places, societies and cultures

      • may include music that the student has not connected or engaged with.

      • music may be from a distant global region but may also include music in closer proximity that has not been previously accessible to the student

• Course assessment (Standard Level)

  • Exploring music in context (External Assessment: 30%)

    • "Students will learn how to engage with a diverse range of music that will broaden their musical horizons and provide stimuli to expand their own music-making. Students will demonstrate diversity and breadth in their exploration by engaging with music from the area of inquiry in personal, local and global contexts." (Music guide: First assessment 2022)

  • Experimenting music in context (Internal Assessment: 30%)

    • "Students connect theoretical studies to practical work and gain a deeper understanding of the music they engage with. Through this theoretical and practical work as researchers, creators and performers, students will learn to experiment with a range of musical material and stimuli from the areas of inquiry across local and global contexts." (Music guide: First assessment 2022)

  • Presenting music in context (External Assessment: 40%)

    • "Students learn to practice and prepare finished pieces that will be performed or presented to an audience. In working towards completed musical works, students expand their musical identity, demonstrate their level of musicianship, and learn to share and communicate their music as researchers, creators and performers." (Music guide: First assessment 2022)

Area of Inquiry (4 areas), Music context (3 contexts)

• Detailed explanations about each area of inquiry

  • with examples

• Detailed explanations about 3 music contexts

  • with examples