11MUSI
NCEA Level 1 Music
Introduction
NCEA Level 1 Music offers 4 Achievement Standards and 3-5 Unit standards.
In completing the achievement standards, you will use music skills in a music style, demonstrate performance skills, shape music ideas to create an original composition and you will demonstrate understanding of music in relation to contexts.
In completing the unit standards, you will demonstrate your knowledge using sequencing and notation software as well as your team work skills. There is also the option to perform new Maori music and develop your knowledge of sound production techniques.
Course Outline
Credits Available:
Internal - Up to 20 to choose from
External - 10 optional
Total - 30 to choose from
Where this course can lead
By taking music in Year 11 you will be well equipped and feel confident to take music in Year 12.
In the future music can lead to.....
Well, Chief Product Officer for Microsoft Panos Panay has said:
“I succeeded as an entrepreneur not despite the fact that I had a music degree, but precisely because of it.
"Learning how to play a musical instrument and becoming a musician is an exercise in developing good listening skills, experimenting, overcoming repeated failure, self-discipline, and successful collaboration.
“It is simply impossible to become a successful music professional unless one also masters certain theoretical concepts, develops good presentation and improvisational skills and, ultimately, attains that elusive quality of originality that only comes once fear of failure is overtaken by the desire to acquire a new insight, a fresh perspective, and a unique voice.”
Prerequisites & Equipment
Entry: Year 10 Music and/or by audition.