Year 7 & 8 Music
Unit 1: Music 101
In this unit, students explore the genre of popular music. Students manipulate rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression and form and structure as they create a 12-bar loop composition constructed from chords of a major scale degree. Students perform a piece of music that features a popular riff or chord progression, applying the elements of music. They will evaluate the performance choices made in their performance and reflect on its success.
Year 9 Music
Unit 1: Rock And A Hard Place
In this unit students explore the origins and developments of Rock music using aural skills to understand how historical, cultural and social viewpoints can be expressed through music. Students will interpret repertoire and use their knowledge of stylistic understanding and the music elements to perform a Rock song that expresses viewpoint as a solo artist or in an ensemble. They will take on the role of a Rock musician to analyse and evaluate how music elements have been used to communicate a historical, social or cultural viewpoint in an interview style presentation. Students will interpret repertoire and use their knowledge of stylistic understanding and the music elements to compose a Rock song that expresses a viewpoint.
Year 10 Music
Unit 1: And all that Jazz
In this unit students explore the origins and developments of Jazz using aural skills to understand how historical, cultural and social viewpoints can be expressed through music.
Students will interpret repertoire and use their knowledge of stylistic understanding and the music elements to perform a Jazz song as a solo artist or in an ensemble. They will take on the role of a musicologist to analyse and evaluate how music elements have been used to communicate a historical, social or cultural viewpoint.
Students will interpret repertoire and use their knowledge of stylistic understanding and the music elements to compose a piece of music in a Jazz style.
Unit 2: Fusion Confusion
In this unit, students explore the genre of fusion music. Students will use aural skills to recognise and memorise music elements as they interpret, rehearse and perform repertoire from a range of styles.
Students will use their understanding of music making in different cultures, times and places to shape their performance. Students will use aural skills and their knowledge of the music elements, style and notation to compose, document and share a piece of fusion music.
Students will use their understanding of music making in different cultures, times and places to shape their composition. They will complete a journal that analyses their composition aurally and visually, and, evaluates their use of music elements and defining characteristics from the fusion of styles they compose in.