Level 2
Developing Practical Knowledge in Music (PK)
Students will identify through focused listening, and explore, the musical elements of beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour.
Developing Ideas in Music (DI)
Students will invent and represent musical ideas, drawing on imagination and responding to sources of motivation.
Communicating and Interpreting in Music (CI)
Students will share music making with others, using basic performance skills and techniques, and respond to live or recorded music.
Understanding Music in Context (UC)
Students will identify music as part of everyday life and recognise that it serves a variety of purposes.
Learning Examples
- Use focused listening to distinguish between different sound sources or instruments, both live and recorded. Identify how each sound is produced and describe its distinguishing features. (PK)
- Respond through movement to music that includes a variety of tone colours, metres, tempos, and contrasting sounds. Use appropriate words and symbols to describe and compare the sounds (e.g., the "brushing" on a drum, the "rush" of fine shingle in a rainmaker). (PK, CI)
- Use a range of untuned and tuned percussion to play back musical phrases and to create rhythmic and melodic ostinati to accompany them. (PK, DI)
- Listen to a story, poem, play, song, or pakiwaitara that suggests a range of ideas for accompanying sounds. Talk about, create, and share responses in music to this source of motivation. (DI, CI)
- Use body percussion to make sounds in response to given sources of motivation (e.g., rhythmic answers to rhythmic questions, imitating a range of dynamics, matching changes of tempo). (PK, DI)
- Invent short ideas in music, using a variety of stimuli (e.g., a picture, the classroom aquarium). Draw shapes, lines, and patterns to represent these ideas and share them with others. (DI, CI)
- Learn and present a chant from a culture represented in the class, paying attention to keeping in time, phrasing, tempo, and dynamics. (CI, UC)
- Sing a variety of unison songs that relate to everyday life, controlling breathing, pitch, rhythm, and dynamics. (CI, UC)
- With control over tempo, dynamics, rhythm, and physical co-ordination, play on instruments to create simple tunes and rhythmic patterns based on musical ideas sourced from the local community. Share these tunes and patterns with others. (PK, DI, UC, CI)
- Listen to and identify the purposes of several different kinds of live or recorded music (e.g., oriori, waiata-a-ringa, sacred and celebratory music, television and film themes, music of computer games, songs and chants of playground games). (UC)
