Music can be studied as a one-year course or a two-year course and is open to students in Years 9 and 10.

Students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills in the musical concepts through:

Performing

• performing a range of repertoire

• performing student compositions

• performing repertoire characteristic of the compulsory and additional topics studied

• improvising

• discovering the capabilities and ranges of various instruments and voices

• accompanying

• interpreting a variety of musical notation styles

• using different types of technology for performance

• performance presentation.

Composing

• improvising, arranging and composing using a variety of sound sources and movement activities

• using computer-based and other technologies to create and notate compositions

• notating compositions using notation appropriate to the music selected for study

• developing a portfolio of compositions and compositional work.

Listening

• analysing, discussing and responding in oral and written form to a range of repertoire

• analysing, discussing and responding in oral and written form to how composers have used the concepts of music in their works

• reading and interpreting musical scores

• developing aural discrimination skills in pitch and rhythm

• sight singing

• analysing the role technology has played in music throughout the ages.

For more information about this course, please see: Mr Rooke, Mr Nguyen