If you follow this site, then you might be aware of my thoughts on teaching music analysis and evaluation (mainly, in the context of the Musicology ‘strand’/component of Year 11 and 12 Queensland syllabus documents[i]). I’ve posted a few entries in the last year or so that attend to this, with the later of these…
Category: musicology
Reframing cognitive processes in music ‘analysis’
Year 11 Music teachers in Queensland are now a few weeks into the new Music 2019 General Senior Syllabus. As those involved know, there is a significant shift in assessment practice in this syllabus, along with mandated subject matter, which together, will likely influence our considerations surrounding pedagogical approach. Though the syllabus brings with it…
Mr Tim Pani talks music analysis and evaluation…
In my last post I identified a ‘refined’ approach to thinking about analysing and evaluating music after a Year 12 lesson where things weren’t really working as planned. In the following lesson I implemented the new plan, and things seemingly went well. At the end of the lesson, I asked the students if they felt…
Musicology – starting where the music speaks to us…
I think about teaching the Musicology objective[i]a lot… and just when I think I’ve worked out the best way forward, I hit a stumbling block. You may have seen some evidence of this thinking (and the stumbling!) through previous posts (here, and here). I do not see them as failed attempts, but more so the…
Working musically between making and responding
The Music 2019 General Senior Syllabus[i] will be implemented in the new year in Queensland, Australia, though many teachers have long begun preparation for the transition into this new document (and indeed system). There are some big systemic changes to the organisation of curriculum and assessment in every Year 11 and 12 subject, though we…
Instructions for ‘detangling’: Structuring a Musicology viewpoint
In an earlier post – Disentangling the entangled: Thinking about and through Musicology – I spoke of an approach to music analysis as it is required of in Queensland’s Music: Senior Syllabus (QCAA, 2013)[i]. Since then, I have also received Musicology work from both my Year 11 and Year 12 Music classes. The Year 11…
Disentangling the entangled: Thinking about and through Musicology
After much deconstruction and analysis of music, my Year 11 Music students are about to embark on their first formal Musicology task. In Queensland, Australia, Musicology is a dimension of the current senior syllabus.[i] It involves “the study of music in social, historical and cultural contexts… it entails researching, analysing and evaluating repertoire… in a…
Dr Cade Bonar 