AC9AMU2C01 Years 1 to 2 The Arts

Content descriptor select and combine elements of music when composing and practising music for performance

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration improvising patterns of body movement, such as clapping or stamping, to create accompaniments; for example, accompaniments for songs
• • Elaboration practising a repertoire of songs, chants and rhymes focusing on using elements of music such as tempo, dynamics or articulation to create expressive effects
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration practising music using accessible technologies; for example, using recordings to make decisions about dynamics or tempo

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• • Elaboration 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)