Understanding Music

Students develop and extend their musical literacy and understanding of the musical elements that underpin the creation of music through the exploration of musical works. They apply their understanding of musical elements in the creation of their own music.

Students develop an understanding of structural and stylistic features of music through exploring, analysing, and discussing works from diverse social and cultural contexts.

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

• activities that provide opportunities for personalised learning (e.g. investigating the stylistic elements of their own repertoire)
• aural perception practice
• reconstructing music through an aural source (playing by ear)
• relevant theory exercises
• sight‑reading or sight‑singing ensemble parts or simple solo pieces
• interpreting selected score excerpts
• identifying and notating rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic patterns
• transposing simple melodies
• transcribing a section of a work
• comparative studies of musical works
• engagement with external musical resources
• engagement with musical technologies to understand and create music.