Year 11 Music

Aims 

Ākonga learn how to work individually and collaboratively and to explore ways of creating, interpreting and representing ideas within music. Ākonga have opportunities to further their own creative potential as they sing, play instruments, read symbols and notations, record and analyse and appreciate music. As ākonga learn to communicate musically with increasing sophistication, they lay a foundation for lifelong enjoyment of and participation in music.

Course Content 

• Performance - prepare, rehearse, and present performances of music individually and collaboratively, on your chosen instrument or voice

• Composition / Songwriting - create, structure, and represent a portfolio of original music, individually or collaboratively, in styles of your choice 

• Musical knowledge - learn a range of musical through aural, practical and theoretical skills and analyse music from a range of styles, and genres, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts

• Music technology - build practical knowledge and skills on how to set up and operate a vatiety of music technologies related to recording and performance

Assessment 

In class checkpoints, performances, portfolios

Prior knowledge required

Already, or are prepared to be, playing or learning an instrument and/or voice

Next Step 

NCEA Music Level 2