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Curriculum content descriptions

select and combine elements of music when composing and practising music for performance (AC9AMU2C01)

Elaborations

contributing to decisions about how to interpret the elements of music, such as tempo (duration/time), dynamics and/or articulation when performing songs, chants, rhymes or instrumental music
improvising and making decisions about how to combine sounds to create compositions; for example, combining pitch and rhythm patterns, improvising melodies and drone accompaniments, making decisions about instrumentation, articulation, texture and dynamics
using voices and body percussion to create music that features contrasting examples of elements of music, such as sound/silence, fast/slow, long/short, high/low, loud/soft
improvising patterns of body movement, such as clapping or stamping, to create accompaniments; for example, accompaniments for songs
practising a repertoire of songs, chants and rhymes focusing on using elements of music such as tempo, dynamics or articulation to create expressive effects
using signs and symbols to notate or document patterns or soundscapes and/or using an available device to record work in progress so that they can listen and make decisions about what to do next
practising music using accessible technologies; for example, using recordings to make decisions about dynamics or tempo
writing lyrics for a chant/rap and improvising to develop rhythmic patterns they can use to perform the lyrics; for example, combining unison sections (voices alone) with multi-part sections (voices and body percussion or instruments)

General capabilities

Critical and Creative Thinking
Personal and Social capability

ScOT terms

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

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