Music
ARTS FACULTY
| 🎓 Course Type | Elective |
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| 🧩 Units | 1 - 4 |
| 🗓 Timing | Units 1 & 2 in Y9, Units 3 & 4 in Y10 |
| ⏱ Hours per week | 3 |
| 📚 Prior Experience | Advantageous but not required - see notes below |
| ✏️ Selection | Possible to commence study with any of the above units |
| 🧭 Future Pathways | Excellent preparation for Music in Year 10, and Years 11 & 12 UTAS, IB or TCE pathways |
Music in Years 9 and 10 is practical and creative, with students being given every opportunity to perform, compose and listen to music.
In particular, students will:
- Study facets of performance and perform regularly before an audience as a soloist and as a member of an ensemble
- Compose music and write songs, with a particular focus on the construction of melody, the use of specific compositional techniques, and the use of chords and harmony
- Create music through improvisation
- Critique live performances
- Use computer software to compose and notate music
- Listen to and analyse music
- Pursue an individual and self-directed music project, the topic of which is negotiated with the teacher.
Year 10 students also have the opportunity to work with a local composer when composing a piece for an instrument and/or writing songs.
To complement and support the practical components of the course, it is strongly recommended that students undertake individual tuition on their chosen instrument or voice and participate in one or more of the many co-curricular ensembles.
All Year 9 and Year 10 Music students have access to software to help with the development of aural and theoretical skills.
Students planning to study IB Music, or TCE Music Level 3 or Foundation Practical Study in Years 11 and 12 are strongly advised to take Music in both semesters in Year 10.
Year 9 Units
| Unit One | Time and Meter Melody Writing Chord Construction The Performer |
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| Unit Two | Small Ensemble Performance Instruments of the Western World Independent Inquiry Ragtime Music Impressionism |
Year 10 Units
| Unit Three | In the Groove Musical Research Project Legal / Illegal Harmonies I Write the Song The Performer |
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| Unit Four | Groove 2 Music Take it Up a Tone – a look at transposition Music for Me The Performer Year 10 Twilight Concert And either: Improvisation and small band rehearsal (optional), or Advanced Theory – preparation for Music in Years 11 & 12 |