Ngā Toi - The Arts
Te toi whakairo, ka ihiihi, ka wehiwehi, ka aweawe te ao katoa.
The arts are powerful forms of expression that recognise, value, and contribute to the unique bicultural and multicultural character of Aotearoa New Zealand, enriching the lives of all New Zealanders. The arts have their own distinct languages that use both verbal and non-verbal conventions, mediated by selected processes and technologies. Through movement, sound, and image, the arts transform people’s creative ideas into expressive works that communicate layered meanings.
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Music is an art form that allows students to:
Develop a deeper understanding of themselves
Learn about music as a language with its own structures, elements and symbols
Express and interpret ideas within diverse creative, technological and cultural frameworks
Develop confidence in their ability to express themselves creatively and emotionally through making original music and performing to an audience
Participating in music enhances personal wellbeing
In this course students will learn:
how to use music skills in a music style
how to develop performance skills and perform them in front of a live audience
how to shape music ideas to create an original composition
Māori world values such as manaakitanga (respect, care and reciprocity between people), kotahitanga (unity and collaboration) and whanaungatanga (relationships and belonging), will be the foundation for our work in music.
Students will:
Learn a variety of music styles that encompasses traditional and contemporary styles from Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider world. Examples could include waiata tira, classical, rock and folk music styles. The music skills include technical, theoretical, aural, and physical skills
Develop performance skills as a soloist and in groups, which encompasses the use of a stage presentation skills appropriate to an instrument, performance setting and style.
Develop music ideas such as rhythmic motifs, melodic motifs, riffs, patterns, lyric material, chord progressions: this plus the development of these ideas will lead to a complete piece of music that is created by the student
Your work will be assessed through internals assessments, including:
Solo performance
Group performance
Composition
Aural perception
Music fundamentals
Music/Drama
Nil
For further information you can contact:
Head of Music - Merrick Stein - stm@pc.school.nz
Or
Careers Department - careers@pc.school.nz