Responding to Music

Students develop their musical understanding and musical skills and techniques through engagement with and interpretation of the works of others. They identify, analyse, and discuss musical elements, and structural and stylistic features. Their analysis and discussion enable students to extend their understanding of musical concepts and develop their musical literacy. Students build on their musical literacy by making connections between theoretical concepts and music performances. They interpret, analyse, and discuss genres and influences from a range of social and cultural contexts to inform their own musical creations.

Students reflect on their understanding of music and on the music they create. They develop their ability to appraise and refine their creative works in response to their musical understanding, skills, and techniques.

Suggested teaching and learning strategies may include, but are not limited to:

• attending live performances and discussing structural, stylistic, and aesthetic aspects
• analysing and discussing selected works
• maintaining a reflection journal on development of musical skills
• identifying rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic patterns
• analysing and discussing standard musical structures
• taking part in personalised learning activities (e.g. comparison of others’ interpretations of their own repertoire).