The implementation of the new QCE system[i] has seen significant change to Year 11 and 12 assessment and a reframing and reshaping of the curriculum in each subject. In the case of Music, the framing of the curriculum may have changed, but as I have argued before, it is still set upon the same musical…
Category: New syllabus
Music analysis and evaluation: Beams, hooks and bags…
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…
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…
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…
Dr Cade Bonar 