Music___________________________
Essential Learnings_____________
As stated by the QSA Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Framework Music involves singing, playing instruments, listening, moving, improvising and composing by using the music elements to express ideas, considering particular audiences and particular purposes, through sound. • Duration, beat, time values and metre are used to create repeated rhythmic patterns e.g. using minims, crotchets, quavers, semiquavers and crotchet rests to create rhythmic ostinatos in simple time. • Pitch and intervals are used to create melodic phrases and sequences e.g. using an improvised melody to accompany a known nursery rhyme. • Repetition is used to structure music e.g. using the same, similar and different phrases within a known song. • Familiar sound sources, including vocal and instrumental sources, have characteristic sound qualities (tone colour) e.g. hearing the mellow tone of a cello, compared with the bright sound of a trumpet. • Relative softness and loudness of sounds are used to change the dynamic level of music e.g. using forte (f) to sing loudly or piano (p) to play softly. (QSA, 2007, p.3) Forms of Music_______________ (Russell-Bowie, 2009)
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_____________Elements of Music______________ (Russell-Bowie, 2009)
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