Years 9 and 10 · The Arts · Exploring and responding

AC9AMU10E02

investigate the ways that First Nations Australian performers and/or composers celebrate and challenge multiple perspectives of Australian identity through music

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Where AC9AMU10E02 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 9 and 10.

1. Years 7 and 8AC9AMU8E01investigate the ways that composers and/or performers use the elements of music and/or compositional devices in music composed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
2. Years 7 and 8AC9AMU8E02investigate the diversity of music composed and/or performed by First Nations Australians, considering culturally responsive approaches to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights