AC9AMU10C01 Year 9 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

interpret music in a variety of forms and styles, manipulating the elements of music and/or compositional devices, and using style-specific vocal/instrumental techniques to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Elaborations

• 1 rehearsing and refining their ability to control technical and expressive qualities in solo and/or ensemble music to achieve accuracy and fluency, and to communicate stylistic understanding
• 2 experimenting with and comparing how the elements of music and compositional devices are used to communicate musical intentions in traditional, digital or graphic scores from different styles; for example, listening and evaluating approaches used by other performers and trialling options or asking questions such as “Which approach best communicates my intentions or the composer’s intention?”
• 3 identifying stylistic conventions relevant to music they are learning, planning and practising to apply the conventions (as relevant) in their performance of music in that/those styles; for example, using information from composer/s, performers or analysis undertaken by other musicians or commentators
• 4 selecting, interpreting and practising a performance program that focuses on a particular theme (social or historical), music style or the work of a composer or performer/s; for example, a solo or ensemble program

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