Music / Foundation to Year 2

Curriculum content descriptions

Develop aural skills by exploring and imitating sounds, pitch and rhythm patterns using voice, movement and body percussion (ACAMUM080)

Elaborations
  • matching pitch to sing in tune and experimenting with speaking and singing voice to recognise the differences
  • imitating pitch and rhythm patterns to develop aural recognition skills, for example, echo clapping and call and response singing
  • using voices and body percussion to experiment with the elements of music to identify same and different, for example, sound and silence, fast and slow, long and short, high and low, loud and soft, happy and sad
  • recording music ideas using technologies and graphic notation
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Ear training

Video

Can you clap the cymbal part from Carmen?

Get your clapping hands ready and join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as they play some music from the opera Carmen, by composer Bizet. Follow along with host Paul Rissmann and see if you can keep up with the orchestra! How does this piece of music make you feel? Why do you think it has that effect?