AC9AMU8C01 Year 7 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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/or styles, manipulating elements of music and employing relevant vocal/instrumental techniques

Elaborations

• 1 investigating and trialling ways of realising stylistic features when rehearsing; for example, using effects such as distortion, decay or delay, or using accent/stress to achieve a stylistic feel when interpreting melodies or rhythmic patterns
• 2 interpreting music that is notated/documented in a range of formats, such as graphic or interactive scores, staff notation or tablature (TAB) and recordings; for example, using a recording and a chart that includes melody, form and harmony/chords to develop an arrangement of a song
• 3 using student and teacher set goals as a focus for practising and rehearsing a range of solo and/or ensemble music
• 4 manipulating sound quality by applying understanding of the range of sounds/timbres that different instruments and voice types can produce; for example, manipulating dynamics and timbre in voice or acoustic or digital instruments to create a specific effect

Related Achievement Standards