Years 5 and 6 · The Arts · Developing practices and skills

AC9AMU6D01

develop listening/aural skills and skills for manipulating elements of music to achieve expressive effects when composing, singing and playing instruments

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The same idea, year by year

Where AC9AMU6D01 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 5 and 6.

1. Years 3 and 4AC9AMU4D01develop listening skills and skills for manipulating elements of music when singing and playing instruments
2. Years 7 and 8AC9AMU8D01develop and practise listening/aural skills and vocal and/or instrumental skills/techniques for manipulating elements of music to achieve expressive effects
3. Years 7 and 8AC9AMU8D02reflect on their own and others’ music to inform choices they make as composers and performers about how they will manipulate elements of music and/or compositional devices