MUSIC

VCE | MUSIC

VCE Music is based on active engagement in all aspects of music. Students develop and refine musicianship skills and knowledge and develop a critical awareness of their relationship with music as listeners, performers, creators and music makers. Students explore, reflect on and respond to the music they listen to, create and perform.

They analyse and evaluate live and recorded performances, and learn to incorporate, adapt and interpret musical practices from diverse cultures, times and locations into their own learning about music as both a social and cultural practice.

Students study and practise ways of effectively communicating and expressing musical ideas to an audience as performers and composers, and respond to musical works as an audience. They develop knowledge and skills, provide a practical foundation for students to compose, arrange, interpret, reimagine, improvise, recreate and critique music in an informed manner.

In this study students are offered a range of pathways that acknowledge and support a variety of student backgrounds and music learning contexts, including formal and informal.

It is highly recommended that students: Undertake Units 1 & 2 Music prior to commencing a Unit 3 & 4 Music Study.

Consult with music faculty teachers regarding which Unit(s) 3 & 4 music studies will best suit their skills/strengths/passions and prepare them for their pathway, (including which order they should be undertaken).

Have approximately three years’ experience with a musical instrument or voice prior to commencing Unit 3 Music Contemporary or Repertoire Performance.

Please also consider the following:

There are VCE ATAR scoring considerations to be discussed with the Director of Music for any student who wishes to study 3 or more of the Unit 3 & 4 Music studies in Years 11 & 12.

Students studying VCE Music (all units) are required to have a weekly instrumental music lesson to support their learning (see special note regarding music lessons and VCE VET Sound).

Students studying VCE Music (all Units) are required to participate in the College ensemble program, attending weekly rehearsals and performances.

YEAR 10* OR 11

MUSIC UNITS 1 & 2

VCE Music is based on active engagement in all aspects of music. Students rehearse, perform, and develop their skills as musicians across a broad range of contexts and activities. Students will rehearse and perform in small groups (rock groups, wind/brass/string ensembles/vocal groups) under the guidance of an ensemble teacher. They will also experience large group performance and as well develop their performance craft as soloists in performance classes and workshops. Opportunities to perform at community and college events will also be offered to students to develop their skills and confidence as performers.

Class activities include listening to a broad range of music, students will have the opportunity to explore, reflect on and respond to the music they listen to, create and perform. They analyse and evaluate live and recorded performances, and learn to incorporate, adapt and interpret musical practices into their own practice.

Students also develop knowledge and skills to compose and/or arrange, interpret, reimagine, improvise, recreate, and critique music. In this study students are offered a range of pathways according to their instrument and areas of musical interest from classical to contemporary performance genre.

* Acceleration is possible in this subject. See page 13 for information on acceleration.