Year 12 OP Assessment Booklet 2019

YEAR 12 MUSIC (OP)

COURSE AND ASSESSMENT OUTLINE All learning in Senior Music leads to developing students’ musicianship, i.e. the unique set of knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and dispositions that allows students to engage in all forms of music making and music interaction. Music is sound, and any experience of music is essentially and fundamentally aural. Students develop their inner hearing, music skills, techniques and artistry when they have opportunities to use their imagination, creativity, personal and social skills in music making. In Composition , students experiment with sounds, instruments, styles, new media and methods of documenting sound, to create music works. They improvise, trial and refine their music ideas, working with sound in innovative ways to develop their work. In Musicology , students explore and engage with a variety of music contexts, styles, genres and practices. They identify and investigate characteristics of the music they experience and communicate music ideas. In Performance , students sing, play, conduct and direct music. They develop practical music skills through exploring, applying and refining solo and/or ensemble performances and apply theoretical understanding, aural awareness and music technology skills when creating or re-creating music works. Students are encouraged to become adept in using various music-relate technologies and applying their broad music knowledge, skills and insights to express themselves in a rapidly changing music-making environment. A course of study in Music can establish a basis for further education and employment in the fields of music performance, composition, music research, pedagogy, sound technology, music theatre, Arts administration, and emerging creative industries. Many universities and TAFEs offer courses with a strong music focus or in disciplines that build on the knowledge, understandings and skills which students develop in Music. The study of music can be undertaken as part of undergraduate and graduate studies in Music, and the Creative and Performing Arts, either in combined qualifications or as a creative link in interdisciplinary studies, e.g. Music and Law, and Music and Medicine. ASSESSMENT PLAN This course covers a well-balanced range of musical styles. All Year 12 assessment items are summative. UNIT NAME AND OUTLINE ASSESSMENT

Unit 1 - Theatricks: The students will, through the study of the various types of music theatre, explore the relationships between music and music performance as an integrated art form. They will explore a wide repertoire of music that demonstrates different aspects of the developments in music theatre while developing an understanding of the relationship between music and music performance.

Musicology – formal test

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• Composition – compose a work demonstrating techniques from music theatre • Performance – performance of a music theatre work

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