Onslow College
Music (Y10)
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Kathy Roy, Justin Pearce.
Students will explore the world of music, through listening, creating and recreating.
Students will spend time learning to work collaboratively as well as expanding on and building individual skills.
Students finding, developing and strengthening key creative and performance skills are core to this course.
We encourage digital music creation and performance alongside tried and true traditional methods.
We encourage partnership and investing in whakapapa, your friends, peers and community.
We support what you bring, your mana and your ability.
We support and learn from the tikanga involved in pūoro, taonga pūoro and te ao Māori.
Subject Overview
Term 1
Group Performance.
In Term 1, we build and expand on what we did in Year 9 to produce a group performance of a whole piece of music.
What underpins this unit is your ability to work together; to cooperate and learn from and with each other to reach a common goal - in this case, performance of a piece of music.
Term 2
Film.
In Term 2, we look at the building blocks of music (known as "the key concepts of music") and how they work together to essentially manipulate the audience.
Then we use this knowledge to compose our own music and explore different concepts to tell the story.
Term 3
Create | Re-Create.
In Term 3, we use a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) to create our own music or re-create someone else's music with our own spin on it.
We spend time learning how to input musical ideas, how to add effects, and how to mix our audio.
Term 4
Taonga Pūoro.
In this unit, we focus on the traditional instruments of Aotearoa New Zealand. We will learn the whakapapa of the instruments, learn how to make some, learn how to play some, and then create a piece of music using them. This could be in combination with Western instruments or solely using Taonga pūoro.
Recommended Prior Learning
No prior knowledge or learning is required.
You don't have to be able to read music to take music as a subject nor do you have to have any prior experience on an instrument.
Many of our students start from the beginning.
You can start from scratch and we can help get you up and running. That said any of the following skills and or knowledge will be useful:
- Present or past experience on any instrument including singing.
- Present or past experience of creating, composing, songwriting.
- Past experience presenting/performing.
- Knowledge of digital music creation/production. The use of DAW's etc.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Students will need their laptop to access resources and tutorials.
| Description | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Course materials | Contribution | $15.00 |
| $15.00 | ||
Pathway
Musician, Song writer, Performer, Singer, Actor, Composer (for, Film, Games, TV, Bands, Orchestras, Individuals), Sound engineer, Recording engineer, Producer, Musical Director for stage or screen, Teacher, Music Therapist, Coach. Any pathway that requires interacting and communicating with others, leadership qualities, creative thinking and personal resilience. Such as Law, Community Services, Pure Sciences, AI, Technology, Politics, social Services and so forth.
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