Stages 4 and 5 music

The following materials feature ideas for programming units of work as well as activities presented in statewide workshops in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Click on the links below to find pdf files of the materials.

The 2009 link is to Composer Reveals, a collection of online materials to support the study of composition looking at the work of three Australian composers.

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Australian music 2007

Workshops were held in 2007 to support the study of Australian music with a focus on Indigenous Australian music. Teachers were given three workbooks and CDs to take back to the classroom and spent an inspiring session with Aboriginal musician Matthew Doyle who demonstrated compositional techniques using didjeridoo and vocal percussion. Participants also learnt a welcome song and sit down dance using body percussion.

The Centre for Learning Innovation’s units of work provided in the workshop, including Why Music, Music of Our Place and Music of Our Region, are available for free download from www.tale.edu.au You will need to enter the DET portal using your DET username and password. If you do not have a password, follow the steps to obtain one in order to access the materials. Once you have entered, you can search under Secondary materials for Creative Arts Stage 4 from where the units can be downloaded.

Programming ideas
Introduction to the units (pdf 31kb)
Scope and sequence (pdf 41kb)

Why Music 1 (pdf 62kb)
Why Music 2 (pdf 65kb)
Why Music 3 (pdf 35kb)
Why Music 4 (pdf 67kb)
Music of Our Place 1 (pdf 64kb)
Music of Our Place 2 (pdf 69kb)
Music of Our Region 1 (pdf 67kb)
Music of Our Region 2 (pdf 63kb)
Music of Our Region 3 (pdf 65kb)
Music of Our Region 4 (pdf 65kb)

Music technology online 2007

Creating an interactive worksheet (pdf 179kb)

Music technology strategies 2006

Session 1 Publishing, harmonising a melody and notating a polyphonic score (pdf 418kb)

Session 2 Using freeware (pdf 459kb)

Session 3 Garritan Personal Orchestra Instrument Set, Editing Shortcuts, Editing Key Velocity (319kb)

7-10 support materials

Click on the icon for 7-10 Music Syllabus support materials. Developed for the new syallbus, these materials were presented at statewide workshops in Term 2, 2004.

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Music technology workshops May 2005

Acknowledgements

These materials were developed to support the new Music Years 7-10 Syllabus and used in a workshop series for government schools during Term 2, 2005.

Jane Cateris	Canterbury Girls High School
Shane Kershaw	Inverell High School
Julie Montague	Curriculum K-12 Directorate
Peter Schuhmacher	Macintyre High School
Andrew Smith	Homebush Boys' High School
Bill Twyman	Macquarie ICT Innovation Centre
Steve Wilkins	Auburn Girls High School
Anne Wisdom
Thank you to the students from Inverell, Homebush Boys' and Auburn Girls High School who have provided work samples for these units.

Editing MIDI files

Finale 2005 is used to complete the following activities. top

Activity 1: Editing a piano score (pdf 919kb)

Activity 2: Editing a score written for string quartet (pdf 259kb)

Activity 3: Editing a score written for voice and organ. (pdf 102kb)

Imaginary Landscapes

This sequence of activities builds on techniques observed in Richard Meale’s ‘Dog Barking at the Moon’ from Three Miro Pieces. Like Meale, students draw on their response to a painting, as a way of structuring a composition.

This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to using Finale 2005 and Adobe Audition 1.5 to complete the teaching activities. It includes the following sample themes and motifs composed in response to the painting The Hare.

The hare’s theme (126kb)

The movements of the hare are represented in a jerky, bouncy theme with melodic leaps. The sound of the bassoon helps to reflect the quirky nature of Miro’s caricature of a hare.

The hare’s home (63kb)

This theme represents the burrow at the top of the hill: the block chords represent the thick texture of the earth; the melodic contour, with its dip in the middle, represents the hole in the ground.