MUS1: Music

Music is an art form that allows students to:

• Develop confidence in their ability to express themselves in a creative context, either through live performance or composition.

• Learn about music as a language with structures, symbols, and elements, and then see how they are used in other musical contexts.

• Explore their creativity.

• Develop a deeper understanding of themselves and enhance their personal wellbeing.

Ākonga will learn to:

• develop their performance skills in front of an audience

• create their own music using music technology

• develop their musicianship through aural and theory skills

• explore how and why music is used in different contexts

All learning will be based around our Te Kawa o te Ako values, particularly Manaakitanga, Kotahitanga, Pūkengatanga, and Whanaungatanga.

Ākonga will:

• Learn a variety of music styles, including traditional and contemporary styles from Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider world.

• Learn and demonstrate music skills including technical, theoretical, aural, and physical skills.

• Develop and demonstrate performance skills as a soloist and in groups, which will need to be appropriate to the instrument, performance setting, and style. This could involve performances at the Variety Concert and Smokefreerockquest.

• Create music ideas such as rhythms, melodies, riffs, patterns, chord progressions, lyrics: these ideas when developed will lead to an original piece of music that is created by the student.

It is assumed ākonga will be willing and able to perform in a group or as a soloist. Ākonga should also be having a music lesson with one of the itinerant music teachers or a private teacher so they are able to have expert tuition on their instrument.

Ākonga will be assessed on internal and external standards. 

• Standard AS91948 - Use music skills in a music style (internal)

• Standard AS91949 - Demonstrate music performance skills (internal)

• Standard AS91950 - Demonstrate understanding of music in relation to contexts (external)

• Standard AS91951- Shape music ideas to create an original composition (external)

Endorsement is available if students achieve a mix of internal and external standards. 

Laptop if using any music software that the college does not provide.