Course topics.

Try this with Music 1

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Hearing beat, metre and metric grouping: regular versus irregular metres
• Syncopation, augmentation, diminution and rhythmic ostinato by ear
• Tempo, gradations of tempo, pulse rates and the absence of pulse
• Melodic contour, direction of pitch movement, range and register
• Harmony, tonality, scales, modes and other ways of organising pitch
• Definite and indefinite pitch, pitch patterns, pedal point and drone
• Dynamic range, gradations of dynamics, contrast and accent
• Articulation, ornamentation and stylistic indications that articulate a style
• Sound source material and method of sound production: blowing, hitting, plucking, scraping, shaking
• Types of instruments and voices and their combinations as performing media
• Acoustic, electronic and synthesised tone colours and studio processing
• Identifying layers of sound and describing the function of each layer
• Roles of instruments and voices, thinning and thickening, and textural climax
• Phrases, motifs, riffs and repetitive patterns
• Call and response and question and answer techniques by ear
• Sectional forms in popular and art music, world music structures and multi-movement structures
• How repetition and change create unity and contrast across a whole excerpt
• Recognising style, and identifying the use and effects of technology in recorded music
• Choosing the three HSC topics, the comparative study and how topics feed the electives
• Integrating performance, composition, musicology and aural across the HSC course