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AC9AMU8D02: Year 7 The Arts Content Descriptor – Music
AC9AMU8D02 Year 7 The Arts

AC9AMU8D02 – Year 7 The Arts: Music

Strand
Developing practices and skills
Substrand
Music

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.

Content Descriptor

reflect on their own and others’ music to inform choices they make as composers and performers about how they will manipulate elements of music and/or compositional devices

Elaborations

  • • practising, using aural skills and music terminology, how to identify and describe technical and expressive elements of music, such as chord progressions or the way a performer interprets, performs or shapes melodies, phrasing or dynamics; for example, when songwriting, in an instrumental music lesson or in a discussion with peers or a teacher
  • • practising ways to use aural/visual cues when playing or singing in an ensemble; for example, chords or phrases that indicate place within a structure (aural) or gestures indicating tempo or entries (visual)
  • • using focused listening and selected aural skills to evaluate the use of elements of music when listening to a recording for the purpose of making decisions about how they will interpret the music

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASARTMUSY78
Year 7 The Arts Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students analyse how the elements of music and/or compositional devices are manipulated in music they compose, perform and/or experience. They evaluate the ways music from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They describe respectful approaches to composing, performing and/or responding to music.Students demonstrate listening and aural skills when composing and performing. They manipulate elements of music and compositional devices to compose music that communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They notate, document and/or record the music they compose. They manipulate elements of music when performing their own and/or others’ music. They demonstrate performance skills when performing music for audiences.