Development of aural skills, aural memory and inner hearing to identify, sing/playback and notate rhythmic passages, melodic patterns based on familiar scale and intervals, and simple chord progressions (ACAMUM099)

Aural identification of the elements of music in isolation and combination in a range of music excerpts (not all content may be relevant to the selected context):

Rhythm

• beat groupings/subdivision in simple time: , and compound time:
• rests
• swung rhythms
• tempo: (andante, allegretto)

Pitch

• scales: add harmonic minor, Blues up to 3 sharps and 3 flats in treble and bass clefs
• intervals: add m6, M6, m7, M7 ascending and descending
• chords: major and minor triads, primary triads in isolation and simple progressions, add (i, iv, V) in minor keys, (vi) in major keys and (V⁷) in both major and minor keys
• tonality: relevant to scales listed, modulation to relative major/minor
• riff/ostinato, pedal, sequence

Dynamics and expression

• dynamic gradations and articulations to create contrast and alter timbre

Form and structure

• use of theme

Timbre

• instruments and voice types, groups/ensembles, method of sound production, mutes, pedals and distortion

Texture

• polyphonic/multi-voice

(ACAMUM099)