Subject Selection iBook - St Hildas School

SECTION 17
Music
Authority Subject
Course outline
Content
Year 11
✦ Melodic, harmonic and structural theory
✦ Instrumental and vocal characteristics
✦ Orchestral style and compositional devices.
‘MUSIC IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF THE
WORLD’
Music is a part of our everyday lives. Through the ages, it
has assisted us to express our exultation, joy, grief,
sorrow, devotion, happiness and sense of identity.
Through the curriculum, students examine the
development of music through the centuries, from a
practical, technical and a social point of view. Studying
music as a subject in Years 11 and 12 is not only for those
whose current career plans lie in the area of performing
or teaching music. There are many generic skills
developed in the study of music, such as collaboration,
analysis, hypothesising, and synthesis, as you create and
consider the purpose of musical works. Music
contributes to educating students for life – music can be
listened to, appreciated and participated in by people of
all ages and nationalities as it is an international
language and integrated into all aspects of society.
✦ Rock and Pop music in Australia – its form and changing
styles.
✦ Australian Art Music – creating a unique Australian
musical style.
Skills
✦ Vocal, instrumental and keyboard ensemble skills
✦ Composing for voice, strings, woodwind and brass.
✦ Analysis of orchestral scores through recognition of
musical patterns and compositional devices.
✦ Performing popular music.
✦ Composing and analysing pop and rock music.
✦ Composing in a nationalistic style
Content
Year 12
✦ “Finding Your Voice” – through the study of popular vocal
music throughout history or in musical theatre.
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