Music
Examples unpack the knowledge and skills in Music. The examples provide a suggested sequence for the introduction and development of knowledge and skills.
Introduction
The examples focus on:
- the practices of listening, composing and performing
- approaches to exploring and responding to music across cultures, times, places and other contexts
- the elements of music
- safe music practice.
The appendix provides information about rhythmic values and notation, pitch naming and notation, terms used to describe dynamics and expression, and information about notation systems.
The examples are suggestions only and are neither prescriptive nor exhaustive. Teachers can draw from these examples to:
- make decisions about the order and pace with which they introduce and develop knowledge and skills
- support differentiation and meeting the needs of students with diverse learning needs
- plan Arts learning across a range of delivery contexts such as multi-disciplinary units across The Arts and other learning areas.
Throughout their Music learning, students use questions based on Viewpoints (personal and imaginative, cultures and worlds, conventions, and processes) as an inquiry tool for considering their music practice from multiple perspectives, as artist or as audience. Suggested questions that explore the Viewpoints are also included alongside the examples of knowledge and skills.
Teachers are best placed to make decisions about the examples and questions that will best suit their students and context. Graphics suggest an introductory point for each of the knowledge and skill examples.
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