Year 9 Core Subjects Music Music the students actively participate in listening to and creating music. This fosters understanding of other times, places, cultures and contexts. The students listen to, compose and perform music with increasing depth and complexity. Students in this module will study a series of composers from the Baroque era through to the 20th century. During this course students will complete weekly lessons in aural perception, with the focus being on intervals and scales. Their aural skills will gradually develop across the module also by using the Auralia software in the music lab and on their smart phones. As a student progresses in their study of music, they learn to value and appreciate the power of music to transform the heart, soul, mind and spirit of the individual. Year 9 students will use this appreciation of music when they create their own collage of music and put it to images they choose from their lives. Putting the music and photos together will create powerful slideshows that represent the power of music in their lives.
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During this course the students will:
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know how to recognise rhythmic, melodic and harmonic patterns and beat groupings
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arrange music for their own life PowerPoint using Audacity software
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learn how to hear and sing intervals
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be able to describe the main elements of music: melody, harmony, rhythm, beat, texture, dynamics
create a PowerPoint slideshow of photos from childhood that will accompany their life soundtrack created on Audacity
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be able to draw on music from a range of cultures, times and locations as inspiration for their own musical arrangements
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recognise and identify aural intervals up to and including an octave
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use Auralia music software to practice interval and chord recognition
ELTHAM College 2021 Senior School Curriculum Handbook