AC9AMU8D02 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.

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

• 1 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
• 2 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)
• 3 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

Related Achievement Standards