Year 10 Music Syllabus
Year 10 Syllabus
The syllabus is based on the requirement that in Years 9 and 10 the study of the Arts is optional.
Year Level Description
In Year 10, students extend and consolidate music skills and knowledge across a range of performing, composing, aural and analysis activities. They continue to refine aural skills and aural memory to identify, sing/play and notate melodic and rhythmic dictations, chord changes and progressions.
Students explore their emerging personal style and music ideas through combining and manipulating the elements of music, and synthesising stylistic features and conventions when composing and arranging.
Students build on their understanding of meaning and interpretation in musical works, using aural and critical analysis skills to compare and evaluate a range of music, drawing upon knowledge of previously studied works. They use scores and music terminology to analyse and evaluate the use of the elements of music within a context, genre or style, and identify and discuss social, cultural and historical factors.
Students practise and perform a wider range of solo and ensemble repertoire, developing and consolidating technical skills, expression and stylistic integrity. As performers and audience members they are provided with opportunities to develop aesthetic awareness and make informed observations about a range of music and related social, cultural and ethical considerations.
Music learning is aurally based and is integrated across all aspects of the written component of the subject through a selected context/s. The performance component reinforces and extends music learning, and can be delivered in a different context to the written component. The elements of music are to be integrated across all areas of music learning as appropriate to context.
Year 10 Achievement Standard
At Standard, students identify, apply, notate and perform rhythmic and melodic concepts and harmonic progressions in major and minor keys, with some partial or inconsistent responses. They improvise, select and integrate elements of music to create musical works, developing and maintaining compositional ideas, with some inconsistency. Students use generally accurate notation and incorporate some appropriate stylistic conventions and expressive devices. They perform with generally sound technique and some appropriate expression and stylistic performance conventions. With some guidance, they consider blend and balance when playing with an ensemble and endeavour to adjust pitch, tone and volume.
Students identify, analyse and compare the use and purpose of the elements of music in a range of works, using some appropriate music terminology and making occasional references to stylistic application. They identify and compare musical characteristics, considering stylistic features and contributions made by key composers, performers and/or artists, and make connections between social, historical and cultural contexts.
Analysis and context
Identification, comparison and evaluation of the use, combination and stylistic treatment of the elements of music, using aural and critical analysis skills and stylistically informed language to make comparisons, informed observations and judgements about a wide range of music
Identification, analysis and evaluation of connections between social, cultural and historical influences and musical developments; and analysis of how the use and combination of the elements of music define stylistic characteristics and cultural and historical features
Response interpretation and evaluation
Identification and selection of specific criteria to devise and apply strategies when analysing, evaluating and refining their own and others' musical works and performances
Development of personal preferences and aesthetic appreciation, differentiating between subjective and objective interpretations when comparing and evaluating stylistic interpretations of a range of music
Consideration of cultural, social and ethical issues, comparing and evaluating audience response and performer roles across a broad range of music in formal, informal, virtual and interactive settings