AC9AMU8E01 Years 7 to 8 The Arts

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

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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