My Year 6 music class experimented with serialism and tone-rows but using a diatonic scale (A B C D E F G) rather than a chromatic one (ie with all the semitones). I used the phrase ‘Rainbow Tone Row’ to link in with out use of BoomWhackers. Although this does somewhat negate serialsims goal of
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Australian Curriculum Music & Drama Skills / Knowledge Overviews
First term is program writing term. With existing courses in desperate need of alignment, I used the information on the Australian Curriculum site to create a short, easy to read summaries of the relevant Music Skills & Knowledge and Drama Skills & Knowledge. The summaries are in pdf format; contact me for the editable Word documents. R-8 Drama
Tags: curriculum, knowledge, skillsAustralian Curriculum: The Arts Foundation to Year 10
ACARA (The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority) has released a consultation draft of The Arts curriculum. The paper is organised into eight sections: Rationale and Aims Organisation Dance Drama Media Arts Music Visual Arts Glossary Each of the five Arts subjects has its individual rational, aims and learning detailed. Learning outcomes are then
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