Music / Year 9 and 10 / Creating and making

Curriculum content descriptions

compose music, manipulating and combining elements of music and compositional devices relevant to chosen styles and/or forms to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning and notate, document and/or record the music (AC9AMU10C02)

Elaborations
  • evaluating how different traditions, styles or contexts affect the way people respond to a piece of music; and using this information to compose a new piece of music designed to appeal to a specific audience or fulfill a specific purpose
  • experimenting with options for using instrumentation, dynamics and expressive techniques to develop the texture of a composition
  • working collaboratively to compose songs or instrumental music; for example, a song cycle, music theatre work or music for a film, animation or video game, or music that explores issues related to an historical or current event
  • applying an aural understanding of key and tonality when improvising or composing
  • experimenting with ways to combine and manipulate the elements of music and using style-specific compositional devices to develop and shape or extend compositions
  • analysing how elements of music are typically used in a music style and using findings as a guide when arranging or re-imagining music
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Improvisation (Music),  Music appreciation,  Composing (Music),  Musical notation,  Music performance,  Musical elements

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