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AC9AMU8E01: Year 7 The Arts Content Descriptor – Music
AC9AMU8E01 Year 7 The Arts

AC9AMU8E01 – Year 7 The Arts: Music

Strand
Exploring and responding
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

investigate the ways that composers and/or performers use the elements of music and/or compositional devices in music composed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

Elaborations

  • • accessing and researching music through live or recorded/streamed performances to analyse performers’ interpretations of composers’ intentions; for example, using recordings and score/s or chart/s or other information such as an interview or review to identify how performers have interpreted a composer’s intentions, such as tempo choices, instrumentation, feel or articulation
  • • listening to live or recorded music and identifying stylistic characteristics; for example, analysing how elements of music are manipulated and how compositional devices are used; then using this information to describe features of a style or to inform their performance of music in that style
  • • listening to and evaluating how elements of music are manipulated in music composed by a range of composers, with the intention of drawing attention to social issues or values; for example, protest songs, nationalistic music, music that uses “folk”/traditional tunes in re-imagined ways, songs with lyrics that focus on themes such as identity or belonging
  • • researching and discussing the influence of social, cultural and historical developments relating to specific styles, forms or traditions and incorporating these into their performance and/or compositions; for example, conventions relating to forms such as 32-bar song form, genres such as chamber music, or traditions such as singer-songwriter

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.