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Foundation to Year 2 Music

In Foundation to Year 2, learning in The Arts builds on the Early Years Learning Framework. Students are engaged through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of wellbeing and developing their connection with …

Foundation to Year 2 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Years 3 and 4 Music

In Years 3 and 4, learning in The Arts builds on the experience of the previous band. It involves students making and responding to artworks independently and collaboratively with their classmates and teachers. As they experience The Arts, students draw …

Years 3 and 4 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Years 5 and 6 Music

In Years 5 and 6, students draw on artworks from a range of cultures, times and locations. They explore the arts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and of the Asia region and learn that they are used for different purposes. While the arts …

Years 5 and 6 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Years 7 and 8 Music

In Music, students: build on their aural skills by identifying and manipulating rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in their listening, composing and performing aurally identify layers within a texture sing …

Years 7 and 8 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Years 9 and 10 Music

In Music, students: continue to develop their aural skills as they build on their understanding and use of the elements of music extend their understanding and use of more complex rhythms and diversity of pitch and incorporate dynamics and expression …

Years 9 and 10 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Structure Music

Learning in Music Students learning Music listen, perform and compose. They learn about the elements of music comprising rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture. Aural skills, or ear training, are the particular …

Structure | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Learning Area Achievement Standard Music Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6, students explain how ideas are communicated in artworks they make and to which they respond. They describe characteristics of artworks from different social, historical and cultural contexts that influence their art making. Students …

ACAMUM081

Sing and play instruments to improvise, practise a repertoire of chants, songs and rhymes, including songs used by cultural groups in the community

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ACAMUR091

Explain how the elements of music communicate meaning by comparing music from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music

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Elaboration (5) ACAMUM081

learning a song used by groups in the local community, such as Aboriginal songs or Torres Strait Islander songs from their community, respecting cultural protocols

Elaboration ACAMUR083

identifying where they might experience music in their lives and communities, for example, considering how music sustains and communicates cultural knowledge

Elaboration ACAMUR087

identifying meaning and describing purposes in music from different social, cultural or historical contexts

Elaboration (1) ACAMUR087

comparing the expectations and requirements of performers and audiences in different cultural settings

Elaboration (1) ACAMUM094

Considering viewpoints – societies, cultures and histories: For example – What is the social context of this piece and for whom would it be performed? What is the cultural context of this piece and what does it signify? What instruments and other features …

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