Year 10 Music - Creating Music

This is a practical course focusing on a mix of basic music theory and notation, composition, and practical music on a chosen instrument. The modules in Year 10 are streamlined to allow students to take music in Year 11 and look at the following:

1. Learning how to use music software: Sibelius, Flat.io, GarageBand, iMovie

2. How to analyse music in order to perform it. 

3. Performing in and out of class - there are performances at the end of each term where students perform as part of a group or solo. 

4. In the first term the students take one trip where we walk around town looking at the Graffiato. Students choose one painting and learn to write a piece of music about the painting. 

5. Tūrangawaewae: composing music in the place they stand. Student learn specific soundscaping techniques to write music about the environment where they belong. 

6. Songwriting forms a part of this course as well as understanding the emotions behind music. 

Practical music runs throughout the course and students have the opportunity to take part in instrumental workshops with specialist teachers. Students perform as part of a group and/or as an individual.