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Music / Year 3 and 4 / Creating and making
Curriculum content descriptions
manipulate elements of music to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning when composing and practising for performance (AC9AMU4C01)
Elaborations
- writing lyrics and/or melodies for songs, raps or chants and using formats such as graphic or staff notation or a lead-sheet or an audio recording to notate/document/record their work
- using available technologies to create accompaniments; for example, improvising patterns (body percussion, classroom instruments) and recording as a loop or using digital tools to notate/document music; for example, using a template to create a lead-sheet or a story-boarding app to record information about where music will be used in a claymation they are creating in Media Arts
- improvising phrases of music on an instrument to practise known notes and rhythm patterns or to extend the range of notes they can play on an instrument
- learning songs and/or instrumental music associated with specific cultures, such as cultural groups in the local community or cultures from Asia, or cultures where a language they are learning is spoken
- listening to live or recorded performances of music and gathering ideas they can use in their performance, such as the feel or mood of the song/music, how to interpret characteristic rhythmic patterns or how they might use body percussion or other movements in their performance
- manipulating the elements of music, such as dynamics and tempo, to express different characters or dramatic action and emotions when composing music for a screen-based work or to accompany drama, such as a re-telling of a familiar children’s story
- combining composed and improvised sections to create a complete work; for example, composing a melody and accompaniment to create a theme song and combining with improvised/soundscape sections to accompany a reading/narration of a story they have written
- working in pairs or groups to create ostinatos or accompaniments; for example, using ukuleles or bucket drums and composing ostinatos or accompaniments for songs they are learning
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Improvisation (Music), Composing (Music), Musical notation, Music performance, Tempo, Musical elements, Dynamics (Music)