Resources

Last update January 2022

Many of the resources on this page are framed by the Queensland General Music Syllabus (2019), with this document guiding the way in which the resources are built.

There are also some Music Extension resources available as well (as above with the connection to the syllabus, General Music Extension Syllabus (2019).

Musicology

Some ideas on Musicology and general musicological processes:

Musicology processes within the Integrated Project (Unit Two): Flowchart of cognitive processes for FA3 (July, 2019)
Musicology process flowchart from Reframing cognitive processes in music ‘analysis’: Cognitions for Musicolgy v.3 (February, 2019)
Starting with evaluation in Musicology worksheet from ‘Starting where the music speaks to us’ post (July, 2018): Musicology – Associations to Themes (July, 2018)
Updated notes from Integrating Making and Responding PDF slides from the ASME Music Workshop at UQ (repeat sessions at Townsville and Cairns): ASME – Making and Responding New Syllabus 2018 (supported by Australian Society for Music Education, James Cook University, St Augustine’s Cairns) (March, July, October 2018)
Integrating Musicology and Performance (into the new QCE system – Music 2019) PDF slides from the ASME New Curriculum Kick-Start presentation in March 2018: ASME – New Syllabus March 2018 (Bonar)
Structuring a Musicology argument flow-chart from ‘Instructions for ‘detangling’: Structuring a Musicology viewpoint: Musicology Flow Chart (September, 2017)
Musicology extended response guide questions for structuring an argument: Musicology – Basic Extended Response Content and Structure (July, 2017)
Musicology analysis template detailed in the post ‘Disentangling the entangled…’ and own thinking about and of music’: Musicology Analysis Template (May 2017)
Musicology explain and analyse template (one version referenced in forthcoming post): Music Element Explain and Analysis Sheet BLANK (January 2022)
Musicology discussion from the Emerging Music Teachers’ Network (EMTN) presentation in May, 2016: EMTN Notes – May 2016

Below are some resources that I use in preparing Year 11 and 12 students for the Integrated Project as well as the EA. These are more mechanical support documents that pedagogical tools (got to look out for my crew!). More coming soon…

Anatomy of an EA question: Anatomy of an EA question for Music
‘The analysis and evaluation butterfly’ (or the 1:2:4 butterfly as my students know it) to assist with overall structure of an argument/viewpoint in the EA: The Analysis and Evaluation Butterfly
Explaining the music elements help sheet (v1.2): Explaining the Music Elements Helpsheet

Below are a sample of Musicology assessment tasks (sans criteria sheet) from the past QCAA syllabus document (2013). I’ve left them here as they may be of value, and could be reworked for use in the current system. My focus here was an attempt to show ways in which students can engage in authentic evaluation; the questions require the students to perceive and interpret the music elements that are important to the evaluation, then analyse and evaluate these features/qualities, before synthesising their findings to pose/support their viewpoint. These tasks are constructed from the conditions outlined by the Music Senior Syllabus (2013). Please respect that these documents are identifiable by school:

Year 11 Musicology 1 (Discovered Manuscript): M1 – Extended Response 2017
Year 11 Musicology 2 (Michael Nyman’s – The Piano*): Year 11 M2 – Extended Written
Year 12 Musicology 1 (Art Exhibition – Impressionism/Expressionism): Year 12 M1 – Extended Response
Year 12 Musicology 1 (Planet Earth): M1 – Extended Response 2018
Year 12 Musicology 2 (Gloomy Sunday): M2 – Extended Response 2017

* Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpHj1lC5Yk for the scene associated with this task.

Composition

Some ideas for thinking broadly about composition in the Year 11/12 classroom: Thinking about composition

Performance

Some points for discussion about Performance based on the QCAA Senior Syllabus (2013): Unpacking the Performance Standards

Australian Curriculum

Attached is a PDF of the slides from ASME’s ‘Getting to know the Australian Curriculum’ professional development workshops – ‘Working with music musically: Integrating making and responding’: Integrating Making and Responding (ASME 2016)

Middle School Specific Resources (more to come):

Attached here is the Resource Menu referred to in the post ‘Backward mapping concepts, processes and purpose to Year 7 Music’: Resource Menu – What’s My Motif?

Posters: Music Elements and Compositional Devices

Click here for music element posters based on the music elements as defined by the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA). The posters print in A3 size.

Click here for compositional devices posters based on the compositional devices as grouped by the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA). The posters print in A3 size.

Samples:

Expressive Devices Transition