Music Concepts and Creation
Music has the capacity to engage, entertain, challenge, inspire and empower students.
Studying music stimulates imaginative and innovative responses, critical thinking and
aesthetic understanding, and encourages students to reach their creative and expressive
potential.
Music exists distinctively in every culture and is a basic expression of human experience.
Students' active participation in music, individually and collaboratively, draws on their own
traditions and life experiences. These experiences help them to appreciate and meaningfully
engage with music practices and traditions of other times, places, cultures and contexts.
Students do not need to have any prior experience in Music to achieve well in, and enjoy, this
subject.
The focus of Music Concepts and Creation is:
The study of the world of music composition through experimentation with the elements of
music (sound, rhythm, melody, harmony and form)
The teaching of a variety of music software packages (Mixcraft, Sibelius, DJ Pro) to
compose pieces for diverse groupings of instruments across many different genres and
contexts
The analysis of examples of music across many genres
An introduction to basic aural perception and performance skills.
Year 8
During the course of a semester, Core Arts in Year 8 focuses on one compulsory performance
course and one compulsory production course per term, each delivered by a specialist teacher
of that subject. The two Year 8 courses are Media Arts and Drama. Other Arts courses can
be selected and studied as part of a student’s Discovery learning program.
Media Arts
Media Arts enables students to analyse past technologies, and use existing and emerging
technologies as they explore imagery, text and sound to create meaning. Students participate
in, experiment with, and interpret cultures, media genres and styles, and different
communication practices.
The course introduces students to the full media production process, from the planning stages
all the way through to marketing and distribution platforms. Students will also gain a wide
variety of media related analytical skills that they can utilise to further expand and inform their
understanding of mainstream media in Australia.
The focus of Media Arts is:
To interpret, analyse and develop media practices through the students’ experiences in
making media arts.
To inspire students to imagine, collaborate and take on responsibilities in planning,
designing and producing media artworks.
Develop practical skills in filmmaking processes.
Analyse and respond to media works.
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