Music Inquiry (Unit 3 & 4)

Music Inquiry (Unit 3 & 4)

Course Summary

This study offers pathways for students whose main interest is a combination of performing, composing/arranging and investigating music through music making, analysing and responding in relation to their particular interests. Music making is a collective and integrated experience. It involves composing, arranging, interpreting, reimaging, improvising, recreating, performing and critiquing music in an informed manner. Students develop aural skills by responding to music from a range of sources across time and place. They analyse music works and/or styles and develop an understanding of how the treatment of music elements, concepts and compositional devices in one work and/or style can be identified and explained in the works of others.

VCE: Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

Perform a work in the style of a selected work/creator and explain how the performance relates to the selected music style and/or creator
Create and/or arrange music and demonstrate the connection to the selected music style and/or creator
Analyse and describe the treatment of music elements, concepts and compositional devices in two works
Listen and respond to selected music excerpts from a range of styles
Externally-assessed Task (EAT) – Submit a folio that contains documentation, video recording of a performance and an audio and/or video recording of a composition/arrangement
End of year written examination

Music Unit 1 and 2

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July 15, 2020August 31, 2022

Music Contemporary Performance Units 3 & 4

Music Contemporary Performance Units 3 & 4

Course Summary

Students prepare a program for assessment in a live performance. They may be assessed as primarily a member of a group or as a solo performer. All performances must include at least one ensemble work with another live musician and an original work created by an Australian artist since 1990. All performances must include a personally reimagined version of an existing work. Original works may also be included in the program. Students identify technical, expressive and stylistic challenges relevant to works they are preparing for performance. They listen and respond to a wide range of music by a variety of performers in contemporary styles. They also study music language concepts such as sales, harmony and rhythmic materials that relate to contemporary music. Styles including (but not limited to) rock, pop, jazz, EDM, country, funk and R&B.

VCE: Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

Perform a selection of works being prepared for the performance examination, demonstrating an understanding of music style, authentic performance conventions and a range of techniques
Demonstrate and discuss performance development techniques and reimagining approaches relevant to the performances of selected works
Discuss a performer’s interpretation and manipulation of music elements and concepts in works
Identify, recreate and notate music language concepts
End of year performance examination-End of year written examination

Music Unit 1 & 2

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