Level 3
Developing Practical Knowledge in Music (PK)
Students will identify through focused listening, and experiment with, contrasts within musical elements.
Developing Ideas in Music (DI)
Students will invent and represent musical ideas to express mood, using shape and contrast.
Communicating and Interpreting in Music (CI)
Students will prepare and present music, using basic performance skills and techniques, and respond to live or recorded music performances.
Understanding Music in Context (UC)
Students will identify and investigate characteristics of music associated with particular contexts, purposes, and styles in past and present cultures.
Learning Examples
- Experiment with contrast by manipulating a range of found, vocal, instrumental, and electronic sounds. Listen to others' experiments and identify how the sounds are made, altered, and combined. (PK)
- Listen to, discuss, and present a traditional waiata or haka, following the leader's cues and directions closely. (CI, UC)
- Imitate contrasting rhythmic phrases in simple metres (e.g., 2/4, 4/4). Improvise with these phrases over an ostinato pattern, and use the resulting ideas as a musical accompaniment to the presentation of a story, poem, or song. (PK, DI, CI)
- Listen to two styles of music represented in the school or the wider community and identify and discuss their particular characteristics (e.g., rhythmic patterns, instruments or voices used, purposes). (PK, UC)
- Read, interpret, and play from symbolic representations of sounds (e.g., beat charts graphic notation). Create and present a short, atmospheric piece, using appropriate symbolic representation to illustrate variations in pitch and dynamics. (CI, DI, PK)
- Create and present musical ideas, using instruments and found sounds, to illustrate moods or feelings expressed in a picture, poem, story, or legend. Record the ideas, using simple symbolic representations of the sounds. (DI, CI, PK)
- Prepare and present performances of several different styles of music (e.g., rap, rhythm and blues). View and discuss the performances, and compare the styles to identify their differences in purpose, structure, and tone colour. (CI, UC)
- Improvise melodic phrases while playing or singing over an ostinato that uses selected pitches (e.g., a pentatonic scale, two chords). Experiment with contrasting tempos and dynamics to represent different emotions. (DI, PK)
- Learn and present from memory a number of unison and two- or three-part songs. Focus on listening carefully for pitch, balance, and expression, on using appropriate posture, and on following the conductor's gestures. (CI)
- Learn and present a song from a previous era. Investigate its origins and discuss and make links between how the music may have been performed in the past and how it might be performed now. (CI, UC)
