In Year 10, students continue to build on music skills and knowledge across a range of performing, composing, aural and listening activities. They continue to develop aural skills and aural memory to identify, sing/play and notate rhythmic and melodic phrases based on familiar scale forms and familiar chord progressions in major and minor keys.
Students will study the genres of Australian Pub Rock, Rap/Hip Hop, Australian Indigenous Rock and Grunge.
Students use composition models and techniques, applying stylistic features and conventions to compose works in their choice of genre.
They listen to a variety of musical works, using scores and music terminology, to analyse and describe the use of the elements of music in structured activities. They examine similarities and differences between musical works and identify cultural, historical and stylistic features.
As soloists and ensemble members they practise and perform a range of music to develop technical skills and control, and expression. As performers and audience members they form opinions and preferences about music and the practices of others’, across a range of contexts, to inform their own music making.
Prerequisites:
A “C” grade or better in Year 9 Arts and English.
Pathways:
The Year 10 Music course can lead to possible Senior School options including access to the BSC Rock Band program and the Department of Education Endorsed Senior School Instrumental course, PIMS provided by IMSS (Instrumental Music School Services).