Music / Year 9 and 10

Curriculum content descriptions

Improvise and arrange music, using aural recognition of texture, dynamics and expression to manipulate the elements of music to explore personal style in composition and performance (ACAMUM099)

Elaborations
  • using aural skills and memory to identify, sing and notate pitch and rhythm patterns, intervals and familiar chord changes
  • improvising with instrumentation, dynamics and expressive techniques to develop the texture of a composition
  • experimenting with layering of sound to develop a personal style in improvisation and composition
  • applying an aural understanding of key and tonality when improvising and composing
  • exploring use of elements of music in different music styles, including those from other cultures and times, as a stimulus for improvisation
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Improvisation (Music),  Composing (Music),  Dynamics (Music)

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