Year 7
1. The Basic Elements of Music
Features Australian indigenous and non-indigenous music & culture, and reflects achievements of both genders
· Raw materials and nature of music
· How Sounds are made
· Four qualities of Sound: Pitch, Duration, Dynamics and Tone Colour
· How pitch and duration are notated on paper
· Other elements of music: Harmony, Dynamics, Texture and Tempo, Rhythm, and Structure
· Program music – composition
2. Instruments of Music
· Untuned percussion instruments - composition
· Tuned percussion instruments
· The piano
· The orchestral woodwind instruments
· The saxophone and orchestral brass instruments
· The orchestral strings
· Research and produce a poster – instruments of World cultures or the orchestra (not rock instruments)
3. Music on TV
· Cartoon themes – setting the scene & mood
· Sitcoms –music uses tone colour, duration and other effects to portray the comedy feel of the shows
· Crime shows – music suggests drama action and character
· Compose in small groups music to reflect a story using 3 – 5 instruments
· Music and Advertising – the jingle – perform a variety of jingles – create a product and jingle in groups.
Year 8
Rock Music: The Characteristics of Rock and Styles of Rock
· The characteristics of Rock: the form, improvisation, rock beat, instruments
· Rock n’ Roll
· Heavy Rock – Performance and Listening
· Soft Rock (ICT research) – Performance
· Country Rock (ICT research) – Performance
· Commercial Pop (ICT research) - Listening
· Rock technology – Electronica, sequencers and looping software
· Songs with non-rock influences (ICT research)
· Indigenous Rock and other Australian Rock Styles
· Performance on keyboard, guitar or individual instrument as part of a group
Music from the Movies
· Purpose of music in films – Themes – Lord of the Rings, The Power of One, Pirates of the Caribbean,
· Performance and listening – performing media
· The concepts of music used in themes from movies – use of ethnic and other non orchestral music to set a time and place
· Performance on keyboard, guitar or individual instrument
· Themes - Melodic contour (ICT research)
· Major and minor triads, duplets and triplets (ICT research)
· Create soundtrack for video clips
· Songs and pentatonic melody
· Performance on keyboard, guitar or individual instrument