Stage 5 (Years 9 and 10)
Music of a Culture
Dance Music – focus on American dance forms
American Social Dancing in the 20th Century
- Ragtime – eg. foxtrot, grizzly bear dance, castle
- Swing – big band – Stormy Weather
- Lindy hop & Jitterbug
Score reading – music concepts
- American Patrol & Sing Sing Sing
Country Dance Music
- Maypole dance & Morris dance
- Square dance
Notation – Intervals and Interval aural recognition
- Rhythm recognition in compound time
Disco – what styles are housed in this modern form of dance?
- Funk, Soul, Pop & Salsa
- Electronic Dance Music
Preparation for Viva Voce/Aural Assessment – 10%
- Students present information on an artist and a piece of music
Performance on an instrument (or voice) 15%
- Students present an American song wherever possible
Focus on dance music of Latin America
- Samba & Bossa Nova
Classical Music – Form in Music
Music's classic hits – baroque & classical periods
- Toccata and Fugue in D minor – JS Bach
- Minor melodies
- Spring from The Four Seasons – Vivaldi - Ritornello Form and basso continuo
- Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah – Handel - oratorio
- Score reading for all these pieces
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Mozart - Sonata Form
- Symphony 94, Surprise – Haydn – 2nd mvt – theme and variations
Composition tasks to develop melodic writing and chordal or arpeggio accompaniment.
- Practise writing in major scales and learn about alberti bass
- Exercises in arranging for various instruments
Performance to be classical, baroque or modern piece
Music and Technology
Music Notation
- Rhythm dictation - duration, time signatures
- Notation - names and values, position for pitch on the treble clef – rests – how time signatures relate to the notation tree – key signatures, scales, intervals and chords
- Writing chordal accompaniments for piano and guitar - close harmony, triad positions
- Notes of the bass clef- writing for the bass
- Perform chord vamps, arpeggios and bass lines
- Time signatures, duration and tempo – aural recognition
- Rhythm and the drumkit – score-reading, performance and aural recognition
- Pentatonic scale – preparation for composition
Poplular Music 1950s-1990s
- Rock songs history from early rock ‘n' roll till now – song-form, style and lyric studies - chord patterns and bass-lines
- Indigenous Australian Rock – studying protest songs and land-rights songs
- Non-indigenous Australian songs - Analyse and discuss music concepts
Music for Large Ensembles
A Study of the Musical
- The Musical – a background and history
- Grease - the story and the songs - concepts of music; analysis of form, chord progression, riffs
- Writing a short musical:
- Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat - the story and the songs – concepts of music, analysis of form etc.
- The Lion King – the story and the songs –voice types and instrumentation, tone colour and performing media
- Intervals – studying intervals in different keys and in different settings – dissonance and consonance - aural
Music for Small Ensembles
Australian Ensemble Art Music
- Ross Edwards – Ecstatic Dance for 2 violins, Prelude and Dragonfly Dance for percussion quartet
- Elena Kats-Chernin – Russian Rag for string quartet and small ensemble
- Performing an Australian Song