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  • Music in the New Zealand Curriculum
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Music: Levels 5-8: Achievement Objectives

	Level 5	Level 6	Level 7	Level 8
Developing Practical Knowledge in Music	Students will use focused listening to identify, transcribe, and manipulate musical elements and structural devices and will use instruments and technologies to transpose and notate music.	Students will use focused listening, practical activities, instruments, and technologies to explore and describe musical structures and devices and to transcribe, transpose, and notate music in a range of styles.	Students will identify through focused listening, and experiment with, contrasts within musical elements.	Students will use focused listening, practical activities, instruments, and technologies to manipulate, analyse, and describe musical structures and devices and to transcribe, transpose, notate, describe, and evaluate music from a wide range of styles and genres.
Developing Ideas in Music	Students will use musical elements, instruments, and technologies to create structured compositions and improvisations.	Students will use musical elements, structural devices, instruments, and technologies to improvise, arrange, and compose music for specific purposes. Students will notate and record original music.	Students will improvise music. Students will combine musical elements, structural devices, and the use of technologies to compose and arrange music for specific purposes and in particular styles. Students will notate, edit, and record original compositions and arrangements.	Students will improvise music in performance settings. Students will compose and arrange music for specific purposes in particular forms, styles, and genres. Students will notate, edit, record, and direct original compositions and arrangements.
Communicating and Interpreting in Music	Students will prepare, rehearse, present, and evaluate a range of musical pieces for a variety of purposes.	Students will prepare, rehearse, present, record, and evaluate individual and group performances of contrasting pieces, in keeping with the composers' intentions and in style.	Students will prepare, rehearse, refine, present, record, and evaluate individual and group performances of a range of pieces in contrasting styles, in keeping with the composers' intentions and in style. Students will analyse and investigate ways in which communications media and technology influence sound and meaning in music. Students will use critical analysis to inform and evaluate performances.	Students will prepare, rehearse, refine, present or direct, record, and evaluate individual and group performances of a selection of extended pieces in contrasting styles, including a programme of works selected for performance. Students will use critical analysis to inform and evaluate a wide range of performances.
Understanding Music in Context	Students will identify and compare musical styles and genres in relation to social and historical contexts.	Students will compare and contrast a range of musical styles and genres in relation to past and present contexts. Students will investigate the purposes and significance of music in contemporary contexts.	Students will describe, analyse, compare, and contrast a range of musical styles and genres in relation to past and present contexts. Students will investigate the production and performance of music in contemporary contexts.	Students will investigate the purposes and significance of music in society and research a range of styles and genres of music in relation to past and present contexts. Students will research the ways in which technology mediates between the composer or performer and the audience in contemporary contexts.