Using links to free internet resources and on-line tutors - students can work at their own pace and enjoy success! Some short written activities check understanding and make this resource indispensable for busy teachers. Once you introduce the sites - it leaves you free to move amongst students and help them with technique and progress. All the materials are scaffolded to meet the needs of beginners and more ‘able’ students. They can map their progress.

Easy to modify or add to this detailed program. Too busy to deliver both Pop and Rock music? You can choose to take more time or less using this program. Add your own material, modify the rubrics and let the students know what to expect for their assessment at the end of the module. Educational outcomes are becoming universal in their language and this program can easily meet the expected outcomes for your system. Plain english for everyone to understand - no jargon! Covers Performance, Listening, Composition and Musicology all integrated and referenced. To add to the content - why not download my FREE ppt. on Music Elements? or purchase the 'starter' lesson on the 'Disruptive Elements of Rock music' and see your students enter into the debate on what constitutes real music!

Film music brings to film the basic principles of music: melody, harmony, rhythm, meter, volume, tempo, form, tone colour, and instrumentation. Students will learn through these fun lessons, that music in film gets its power from its ability to tap into our expectations that music follow these principles. Conventions, shared between composers and audiences, means that we gain meaning through the power of association; through repetition, conventions such as brass and horns indicate hero or military scenes and these become ingrained in a culture as a kind of collective musical experience. Film music defines emotion in a film and often it generates it. Does film music always have a function? Students find what works in movie music! This pptx. gives recent examples, text slides for students to take brief notes and excellent, short film clips that illustrate powerful effects. Movie Music Part 1 (of two pptx presentations) gives opportunities for students to understand and explain the mix of two art forms: film and music. Movie Music Part 2 gives projects for students to use what they have learned!

HSC Music 1 course: Lesson has two short music extracts focussing on very specific terms: Melisma, Sequence, Phrasing. The two activities can be set as a 'relief lesson' or as self-paced independent learning while you target students who may need extra help in the classroom. The file can be used as both a printed resource for or use with an electronic copy for students. I simply pass a usb with the file, students copy it to their desktop and off they go! The lesson covers the Syllabus for Aural and Composition. Course topics: An Instrument and It's Repertoire; Music for Small Ensemble; Popular Music. NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Know students and how they learn: 1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies to develop engaging teaching activities Know the content and how to teach it 2.2.2 Organise the content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs 2.6.2Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful.

Year 7/8 students will learn to listen carefully to the film score as they complete a Film Music Review activity. By selecting the 'best' of three short music reviews, they will learn how to write their own. Short sentence starters help the process and students complete the activity by composing their own review. Contributes to achieving the outcome (ACAMUR097) Analyse composers’ use of the elements of music and stylistic features when listening to and interpreting music. The particular elements of Literacy addressed by this content description: - Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing - Comprehend texts - Navigate, read and view learning area texts - Listen and respond to learning area texts - Interpret and analyse learning area texts Text knowledge - Use knowledge of text structures Word Knowledge - Understand music vocabulary Students will: - build on their aural skills by identifying and manipulating rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in their listening - aurally identify layers within a texture

This Junior Music program outlines clear objectives in plain English. Meets requirements/outcomes for Listening, Composition and Performance. The assessment rubric links directly to the classroom activities and...the students will have fun learning to play easy to learn film themes as they develop their listening skills and vocabulary! Students will: - build on their aural skills by identifying and manipulating rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in their listening, composing and performing of music written for Film. - aurally identify layers within a texture - play independent parts against accompanying parts (melody, chordal and bass lines) - recognise rhythmic, melodic and harmonic patterns and beat groupings - understand their role within an ensemble choosing tone colours and gradations in volume - perform with expression and some technical control - identify a variety of purposes for which film music is made - draw on music exploring a range of cultures, times and locations as they experience film music over its development. The Composition unit may be used with Garage Band or other sequencing/notation software to develop: - Inquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas in a music soundtrack - Identify and clarify information and ideas in pairs as the work is developed - Organise and process information to meet the task requirements - Generating ideas, possibilities and actions based on a study of film music - Imagine possibilities and connect ideas creating a sound track. - Consider alternatives - Reflecting on thinking and processes - Think about thinking (metacognition) - Reflect on processes - Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures - Draw conclusions and design a course of action. Simply follow the ten week (or, modify to suit) program!

This ppt is self timed and is a fun review of key music words and terms. Students may work in pairs or individually to get their answers for each of the 10 second timed slides. May be used several times to reinforce these important Aural Terms. Especially useful to change the pace of a lesson, reintroduce the key terms or check for understanding and recall. Enjoy!

This simple page will enable the substitute teacher to introduce/continue class work. The page outlines important information: Class info, location, lesson type Lesson materials or on-line codes with instructions Special arrangements, assistance available Feedback info for regular teacher. The template allows movement of the ‘red’ markers/circles/arrows to save writing and re-writing information. The word format can be easily edited to add your name, School details etc. and then, printed or emailed if you are unable to attend work. All the best!

This HSC Music 1 Aural lesson, with online listening activities, may be used as a stand-alone Year 12 revision lesson (also useful for relief lesson) or take the opportunity to work one-on-one with your Preliminary students as they work to deepen their understanding of the music concepts. The recorded music clips are included. Pass the lesson around on a usb for lap top use, or present on screen. Guided focus questions differentiate the activity to reinforce their listening practise. You can set a variety of listening extracts/examples of contrasting music styles to test student learning and provide practise answering the HSC style question. Use past HSC papers and you tube recording’s to further deepen the experience. NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers  The Proficient Standards underpin processes for full registration and accreditation as a teacher and support the requirements of nationally consistent teacher registration. Professional Practice: 3: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning 3.2.2 Plan and implement well-structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning. 3.3.2 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking. 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.

Give yourself time to work with your students and use this detailed program for any 16yrs+Music class . It is particularly aimed at meeting the NSW Preliminary or HSC Music 1 Syllabus outcomes. The composition focus has a comprehensive rubric with marking schema to cover all levels of participation. Each lesson for the 10-week term includes an online guide for both the program(teacher) and a page for students to access the extra information on their device. The links include free music software, exercises for music notation and tutorials for understanding and using chords. It makes this resource useful for those times you cannot be in class! The companion resource, “HSC Composition Portfolio” extends the unit outcomes for the student who chooses to have composition as an elective option. All BOS/NESA examination requirements are listed along with a thorough process for students to develop their skills at every level. I encourage you to complete the package with this handy time-saving addition!

This full program with full lesson guide for ten -week program provides useful information for ‘How to Compose Music’ , score study, composer reflections, rehearsal tips and guide and importantly - the Assessment rubric - plain English makes the program easy reading and makes the syllabus outcomes come to life. NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Know students and how they learn: 1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies to develop engaging teaching activities Know the content and how to teach it 2.2.2 Organise the content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs

What is it in Rock Music that disturbs, for some, our sense of what music should be? Looking at a quote from Robert Palmer, using online resources and youtube links (embedded in the lesson notes), students examine the ‘disruptive influences’ and Rock music elements through the sensational music of Jimi Hendrix. Use this as an introductory lesson or as a challenge for your students! Listen as they debate the core question of the desire to create cultural change and how this drives creativity in music today! Students are encourages to use music vocabulary to explain what they hear, compare with past music and examine the stylistic elements as they listen and take notes.