Year 7 Music

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Year 7 Music

In this unit, students investigate the key inquiry question: “How does music create ‘community’?” Students investigate how music is used in physical and digital communities, with a focus on the ways in which music can bring us together and forward a collective idea. They explore the concepts of repetition, contrast, unity, ostinato and leitmotif, revising the fundamental theoretical aspects of music needed to support these concepts with a focus on discrete units of rhythm and pitch (including treble and bass clef notation, and tones and semitones) through to the development of scales and pitch structures (major, harmonic minor and pentatonic) that will inform their making and responding in the context of the unit.

Structure

Unit 1: Musical Communities

Learning about music theory concepts to support fluency and ability to perform and compose music.
Investigating the elements of pitch, rhythm, texture and timbre, and compositional devices such as repetition, contrast and unity.
Playing a popular song on guitar as part of a group and individually.
Recording and documenting performance work on guitar.
Experimenting and composing using music elements and ideas to write music for an 8-bit styled computer game character.
Use of music applications such as BeepBox and Chrome Music.