Year 9 Assessment Guide 2019

IB MYP YEAR 9 – ARTS: MUSIC

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STATEMENT OF INQUIRY The language of music defies time, place and space

CONCEPTS

GLOBAL CONTEXT

CONTENT

ASSESSMENT

Time, Place and Space

Unit 1: A Cultural Dessert – The Sweeter Things In Life In this unit you will learn about the traditional music – its features and instruments – of a number of world cultures and how this has been combined with western music to create new musical styles. The world cultures that may be explored are: Niger, West Africa, Mali, West Africa, South Africa, China, Ireland, Australian Aboriginal, Polynesia, the Andes, and the Caribbean. An understanding of the musical concepts of duration, pitch, dynamics and expressive techniques, timbre, texture and structure will be gained. Unit 2: Exit, Stage Right In this unit you will learn about the development of the musical from the 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century by studying types of musicals and selections from representative musicals. These types are: Broadway musical, rock musical, concept musical, jukebox musical, movie musical. An understanding of the musical concepts of duration, pitch, dynamics and expressive techniques, timbre, texture and structure will be gained.

Performance/Reflection (Criteria B and D)

Globalisation and Sustainability

Connections

Due: Weeks beginning 11.03.19 and 18.04.19

Composition/Reflection (Criteria B, C and D)

Due: Weeks beginning 06.05.19 and 13.05.19

ONE

Oral Presentation (Criterion A)

Communication

Life imitates art

Personal and Cultural Expression

Due: Week beginning 20.05.19

Perspective

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