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• The Arts
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  • Music in the New Zealand Curriculum
  • Strands, Achievement Objectives, and Learning Examples
  • Level 1
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  • Chart of Achievement Objectives: Levels 1-4
  • Chart of Achievement Objectives: Levels 5-8
• The Visual Arts
• Implementing Programmes in the Arts
• Chart of Achievement Objectives for All Four Disciplines

 

Music: Levels 1-4: Achievement Objectives

	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Developing Practical Knowledge in Music	Students will explore and respond to the musical elements of beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour.	Students will identify through focused listening, and explore, the musical elements of beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour.	Students will identify through focused listening, and experiment with, contrasts within musical elements.	Students will identify through focused listening, and experiment with, a range of patterns, effects, sound qualities, and structural devices.
Developing Ideas in Music	Students will select and organise sounds and express ideas, drawing on personal experience and imagination.	Students will invent and represent musical ideas, drawing on imagination and responding to sources of motivation.	Students will invent and represent musical ideas to express mood, using shape and contrast.	Students will use musical elements, instruments, and technologies to improvise and compose simple musical pieces.
Communicating and Interpreting in Music	Students will share music making with others through informal presentation and respond to live or recorded music.	Students will share music making with others, using basic performance skills and techniques, and respond to live or recorded music.	Students will prepare and present music, using basic performance skills and techniques, and respond to live or recorded music performances.	Students will prepare, rehearse, present, and evaluate brief music performances.
Understanding Music in Context	Students will identify music as part of everyday life and recognise that it serves a variety of purposes.	Students will identify music as part of everyday life and recognise that it serves a variety of purposes.	Students will identify and investigate characteristics of music associated with particular contexts, purposes, and styles in past and present cultures.	Students will identify and investigate characteristics of music associated with particular contexts, purposes, and styles in past and present cultures.