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Music / Year 3 and 4

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Curriculum content descriptions

Create, perform and record compositions by selecting and organising sounds, silence, tempo and volume (ACAMUM086)

Elaborations
  • experimenting with ways of using voices and instruments, combining sounds, silence, tempo and volume to create and perform music
  • exploring given rhythm and pitch patterns, structures or timbres to improvise and create music
  • using notation to represent sound and record ideas, such as inventing a graphic score to represent sounds of the environment
  • improvising and trialling ideas to create compositions for specific audiences and purposes
  • Considering viewpoints – evaluations: For example – How did the music make you feel and why?
  • creating, sourcing and organising music using a range of accessible technologies
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Composing (Music),  Musical notation,  Tempo,  Dynamics (Music)

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