Music is uniquely an aural art form. The essential nature of music is abstract. Music encompasses existing sounds that are selected and shaped; new sounds created by composers and performers, and the placement of sounds in time and space. Composers, performers and listeners perceive and...
Overview material | Music
VCADRD002 | The Arts | Drama | Level A | Drama Practices
VCAMAP019 | The Arts | Media Arts | Foundation Level | Present and Perform
In Visual Communication Design, students develop the skills and practice to communicate ideas and messages in visual communications. Visual communication design practice includes the use of design thinking skills and design as a process. Drawing conventions and the use of design elements and principles...
Overview material | Visual Communication Design
VCAMUR008 | The Arts | Music | Level B | Respond and Interpret
VCAMUR004 | The Arts | Music | Level A | Respond and Interpret
VCAVCDE001 | The Arts | Visual Communication Design | Levels 7 and 8 | Explore and Represent Ideas
In Levels 3 and 4, students learn by making and responding to drama, independently and collaboratively, with their peers and teachers.
Through activities that focus on sharing and communicating, students extend their understanding of role and situation as they offer, accept and extend their ideas...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
In Levels 7 and 8, students build on their understanding of structure, intent, character, settings, viewpoints and genre conventions in their media artworks.
Students extend use of media technologies and their understanding of story principles and media elements, such as the use of time, space,...
Level description | The Arts | Media Arts
In Levels 9 and 10, students refine and extend their understanding and use of structure, intent, character, settings, viewpoints and genre conventions in their compositions. As they use media technologies they extend the use of media elements such as time, space, sound, movement and lighting....
Level description | The Arts | Media Arts
In Levels 5 and 6, Music involves students continuing to listen to, improvise, compose, arrange and perform music, independently and collaboratively with their peers, teachers and communities.
Students explore more complex aspects of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre...
Level description | The Arts | Music
The curriculum is structured around four strands each of which involves making and responding.
Strand | Explore and Represent Ideas | Visual Communication Design Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Exploring and experimenting with ideas and representations in Visual... |
Overview material | Visual Communication Design
VCAMAM035 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Media Arts Practices
VCADRR016 | The Arts | Drama | Level D | Respond and Interpret
VCAMUR020 | The Arts | Music | Foundation Level | Respond and Interpret
VCADRE009 | The Arts | Drama | Level C | Explore and Express Ideas
VCAVAR004 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level A | Respond and Interpret
VCADAP015 | The Arts | Dance | Level D | Present and Perform
VCAMUP044 | The Arts | Music | Levels 9 and 10 | Present and Perform
VCADRD014 | The Arts | Drama | Level D | Drama Practices