WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
Music Performance aims to broaden and
enrich students’ musical experience, to assist
students to develop personal awareness of the
expressive and aesthetic qualities of music
and to encourage a life-long engagement with
music and music making. Performance also
requires the use of an instrument (including
voice) to interpret and realise the work, and
knowledge and understanding of how to use
an instrument/s to produce and manipulate
sound. Performers use musicianship skills
along with instrumental techniques to present
musically engaging performances.
UNIT 1: ORGANISATION IN MUSIC
In this unit students explore and develop
their understanding of how music is
organised. By performing, creating,
analysing and responding to music works
that exhibit different approaches, students
explore and develop their understanding of
the possibilities of musical organisation.
They prepare and perform ensemble
and/or solo musical works to develop
technical control, expression and stylistic
understanding on their chosen
instrument/sound source. At least two
works should be associated with their
study of approaches to music organisation.
They create (arrange, compose or
improvise) short music exercises that
reflect their understanding of the
organisation of music and the processes
they have studied.
They develop knowledge of music
language concepts as they analyse and
respond to a range of music, becoming
familiar with the ways music creators treat
elements of music and concepts and use
compositional devices to create works that
communicate their ideas.
VCE - Music
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UNIT 2: EFFECT IN MUSIC
In this unit, students focus on the way
music can be used to create an intended
effect. By performing, analysing and
responding to music works/examples that
create different effects, students explore
and develop their understanding of the
possibilities of how effect can be created.
Through creating their own music, they
reflect this exploration and understanding.
Students prepare and perform ensemble
and/or solo musical works to develop
technical control, expression and stylistic
understanding using their chosen
instrument/sound source. They should
perform at least one work to convey a
specified effect and demonstrate this in
performance.
They create (arrange, compose or
improvise) short music exercises that
reflect their understanding of the
organisation of music and the processes
they have studied.
As they analyse and respond to a wide
range of music, they become familiar with
the ways music creators treat elements
and concepts of music and use
compositional devices to create works that
communicate their ideas. They continue to
develop their understanding of common
musical language concepts by identifying,
recreating and notating these concepts.
ASSESSMENT
Performance of selected works
Music Language (Written/Aural)
Analysis of Works
Original Composition/Improvisation
** Students MUST be having individual
lessons on their chosen instrument to
undertake these units of work.