Work samples

Students learning in music builds upon learning from the previous band. Students perform from a musical score that they have graphically notated and composed collaboratively with the ensemble in response to their study of penguins in the local habitat.

The task involved students experimenting with elements of music by improvising patterns, phrases and melodies to establish the mood for their composition. Students were identifying and describing features of rhythm, melody and structure that create effects in their improvisations. They manipulated the timbre of a range of instruments and voices to create and vary mood or atmosphere.

Students listened to music about animals including Penguin Circus by Nigel Westlake and responded to the different sections of the music with storytelling to identify how the character of the penguin was reflected in the music. They later discussed how the music helped them demonstrate rhythm through movement. They explored the movement and behaviours of penguins evident in their coastal community. Students learned to play music on classroom instruments. Students collaboratively composed and performed their own musical soundscape inspired by their study of the local penguins.