Music

Year 10 Music develops practical and analytical skills for future development while helping to facilitate a lifelong passion for listening, creating and performing music.

This course offers students the opportunity to explore a variety of practical and compositional skills used across different areas of the music industry. Students extend their technical knowledge and instrumental skills across various genres and time periods while gaining experience in performance, recording, editing music, song design and managing PA equipment.

What You Will Learn

Students will learn how to read and write music and play guitar and keyboard, with the option of additional instruments such as voice, drums, bass guitar and wind instruments available at the teacher’s discretion.

Students investigate the cycle of fifths, chord structures and chord progressions, voice leading, genre characteristics, historical contexts and compositional traits from the Medieval, Classical, Blues, Jazz and Pop/Rock periods.

Students also develop:

• Ensemble performance skills while refining their practical and technical music abilities
• Performance skills to an industry standard while learning best performance practices and rehearsal techniques
• Technical knowledge of music equipment, sound production and live performance setup

Students will explore:

• Target audiences, audience expectations, genre characteristics and stylistic conventions
• Instrumental techniques, reorchestration methods and ways of transforming key musical elements within existing works

Students will also learn how to manage teams, set goals and run effective rehearsals within collaborative music environments.

Assessment Tasks

Music Performance: Instrumental Skills

Craft a Song: Creating a Top 10

Music Performance: Design a Gig

Crafting a Cover: Reimagining an Existing Work

Future School Pathways

VCE General

• VCE Music

VCE VET Certificates

• VCE VET Music