Overview

Course Description

The new VCE Music study design is based on active engagement in all aspects of music. Students develop and refine musicianship skills and knowledge and develop a critical awareness of their relationship with music as listeners, performers, creators and music makers. Students explore, reflect on and respond to the music they listen to, create and perform. They analyse and evaluate live and recorded performances, and learn to incorporate, adapt and interpret musical practices from diverse cultures, times and locations into their own learning about music as both a social and cultural practice. Students study and practise ways of effectively communicating and expressing musical ideas to an audience as performers and composers, and respond to musical works as an audience. The developed knowledge and skills provide a practical foundation for students to compose, arrange, interpret, reimagine, improvise, recreate and critique music in an informed manner.  

In this study students are offered a range of pathways that acknowledge and support a variety of student backgrounds and music learning contexts, including formal and informal. 

Overview: Year 11 VCE Music Units 1 & 2  

Unit 1: Semester 1 – Organisation of Music 

• Area of Study 1 – Performing 

• Area of Study 2 – Creating 

• Area of Study 3 – Analysing and responding 

• Assessment – performances, composition/improvisation exercises and aural, oral, written and practical tasks. 

Unit 2: Semester 2 – Effect in Music 

• Area of Study 1 – Performing 

• Area of Study 2 – Creating 

• Area of Study 3 – Analysing and responding 

• Assessment – performances, composition/improvisation exercises and aural, oral, written and practical tasks. 

OVERVIEW: Year 12 VCE Music Units 3 & 4  

There are two different elective pathways to choose from in Units 3 & 4 (Year 12).  These are: 

1. Music Inquiry 

2. Music Repertoire performance