Music Year 7 Stage 4 Mandatory Course Scope and Sequence

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Australian Popular Music

Observing various forms of popular music that reflect the diversity of Australian society and its reception of multicultural influences. Practising to perform the pieces: Advance

Australia Fair, Waltzing Matilda, The Marching Ants, and The Simpsons. Through examples of popular pieces, students learn the concepts of pitch and duration. Realising

these concepts by creating short melodies on the keyboard.

4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9

Task 1: Keyboard performance I 25%

Australian Electronic and Enviromental Music

The development of electronic music in Australia. The impact of technology on the methods of creating music. The use of environmental and computer-generated sounds as a new musical palette. Through examples taken from Soundworks by Sarah de Jong and Yellow is not

Yellowsoundtracks by Sarah Hopkins, students learn the concepts of dynamics and expressive techniques. Exploring and manipulating the electronic keyboard by using its tone bank, song

bank and rhythmic patterns to create short works.

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Task 2: Research assignment 20%

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Task 4: Revision and Semester 2 Exam 30%

Indigenous Australian music

The music of Aboriginies and Torres Strait Islanders. The didgeridoo and other musical instruments. Contemporary Indigenous Australian music and its numerous styles. Jimmy Little's song "The Royal Telephone". Yothu Yindi's "Treaty". Through examples taken

from trditional and contemporary indigenous Australian music, students learn the concepts of tone colour and texture.

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Task 3: Keyboard performance II

25%

Australian music for radio, film, television and multimedia

The development of music for radio, film,

televison and multimedia in Australia. Exploring musical examples taken from the film Storm Boy,

and the television series Heartbreak High. The concept of structure in music.

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