Year 10 Music

Music in Year 10 focuses on enhancing students’ musicianship through the dimensions of performance, composition and musicology. The aim is to develop knowledge, understanding, skills, techniques, artistry, creativity, attitudes and dispositions that allow students to participate in all forms of music-making. The subject explores music elements and concepts within context, style and genre, and develops capacity in understanding and using commonly used terminology and music notation conventions. Students will be engaged in critical and creative thinking through analysis and evaluation of the way performers and composers use and manipulate music concepts and devices and applying this to generate new ideas and identify alternatives.

Pathways

This subject provides a foundation for further studies of Music in Years 11 and 12. The skills developed may also have application to other senior subjects.

Structure