Level 5
Developing Practical Knowledge in Music (PK)
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.
Developing Ideas in Music (DI)
Students will use musical elements, instruments, and technologies to create structured compositions and improvisations.
Communicating and Interpreting in Music (CI)
Students will prepare, rehearse, present, and evaluate a range of musical pieces for a variety of purposes.
Understanding Music in Context (UC)
Students will identify and compare musical styles and genres in relation to social and historical contexts.
Learning Examples
- Listen to, and identify chord progressions in, songs that use primary chords (e.g., twelve-bar blues, waiata, folk songs, pop songs). Compose a song using these progressions. Share the composition with others and evaluate its effect. (PK, DI, CI)
- Listen to, transcribe, and play back short musical phrases composed and performed by others. (PK)
- Experiment with the structural devices of motif, sequence, repetition, and variation and use them to relate phrases to one another. Find examples of music that use such structural devices, and then use and identify the devices in a brief, original composition. (PK, DI)
- Adapt an existing piece of music by changing its feel, style, or underlying harmony or by adding another part. Prepare and present a performance of the changed music. Evaluate the performance and the effects of the changes. (DI, CI)
- Listen to a specific form, style, or genre of music (e.g., waiata, folk songs, sea shanties, national anthems) in both the original and a contemporary style of performance. Describe how the performance conventions in the music have changed over time. Develop and present a contemporary interpretation of a traditional piece of music. (UC, CI)
- Sing or play a variety of short, known pieces, both by ear and from notation. Rehearse a selection from the pieces for performance within the school. (CI)
- Rehearse a musical work for an ensemble, focusing on co-operation and listening for balance and intonation. Refine the interpretation by considering such criteria as clarity, fluency, musical effect, and style. Present the performance and evaluate its effectiveness. (CI)
- Discuss and describe the use of music in different media over time (e.g., in television themes, radio advertising jingles). Write and present a variety of short pieces that describe or promote the same product or event in different musical ways. (UC, DI, CI)
- Listen to examples of music that use ostinati (e.g., gamelan music, minimalist pieces) and discuss their effect in relation to the music's social or cultural context. Create a rhythmic or melodic hook or an ostinato and add layers of sound over the pattern as it repeats, varying the texture to create an atmospheric or mood piece to accompany a film clip or sequence of images. Present the composition and discuss how it evolved. (UC, DI, PK, CI)
- Compare different performances of a single musical work (e.g., a contemporary song, waiata), paying particular attention to historical or cultural context, musical elements (e.g., tempo, timbre, dynamics), and musical effect. (PK, UC)
