Music
Study Overview
VCE Music 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.
Units
Unit 1: Organisation of music
Unit 2: Effect in music
Unit 3: Music contemporary OR Music repertoire performance
Unit 4: Music contemporary OR Music repertoire performance
2023MusicSD (2).docxAssessment
The award of satisfactory completion for a unit is based on whether the student has demonstrated the set of outcomes specified for the unit. A variety of learning activities and assessment tasks provide a range of opportunities to enable students demonstrate the key knowledge and skills required.
These will include:
Performance
Discussion of rehearsal challenges and strategies (oral, multimedia, or written)
Folio of short compositions (multimedia or written)
Music Language workbook
In Units 1 and 2, all assessment is undertaken by the College.
In Units 2 and 4, percentage contributions to the study score are as follows:
Unit 3 School-assessed coursework: 20%Unit 3 School-assessed coursework: 10%
End of year performance examination: 50%
End of year aural and written examinatoin: 20%
Prerequisites / Suggested Prior Studies
No prerequisites are required for VCE
Is it advisable to have completed prior studies in music performance and musicianship. These can include subjects and electives offered for study at the College. Ideally students would be taking lessons on their instrument, particularly for Units 3 and 4. However a focused ‘can do’ attitude combined with diligent study can enable students to work towards mastering the key knowledge and skills. The basics of music language are revised as part of Unit 1.
Future Pathways
VCE Music equips students with personal and musical skills that enable them to follow pathways into tertiary music study or further training in a broad spectrum of music related careers. These can include:
Performance (advertisements, film scores, and so on)
Education
Arts administration and venue management
Artist management
Program design and delivery
