Music Performance

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Music Performance

• Music Performance Outcome 2 Performance
  Technique
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• Technical work and exercises linked to a
  Listening Journal approach towards greater
  understanding of the elements of Music
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• The combined class approach using a Listening
  Journal highlights the elements of Music in a
  progressive pedagogy to develop greater depth of
  understanding in the elements of Music.
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• Previous and current examiners reports, detail
  the lack of understanding by many students of the
  elements of Music eg. melody students discuss
  rhythm, dynamics etc but not the characteristics
  of the melody! This workshop aims to give
  teachers a Listening Journal approach that
  highlights a variety of Musical elements and
  builds on student knowledge progressively
  throughout the year, to bring depth of
  understanding. Technical work and exercises are
  designed based on the elements of Music, to
  cement the understanding, via the practical
  application of Music terminology, being directly
  linked to the Performance Program.
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Music Performance
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Music Performance

• Music Performance Outcome 3 Musicianship -
  Analysis
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• The combined class approach using a Listening
  Journal highlights the elements of Music in a
  progressive pedagogy to develop greater depth of
  understanding in the elements of Music.
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•   . . analyse the interpretation of expressive
  elements of music in pre-recorded works. . .
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• Listen analytically to pre-recorded performances
  by Australians of works that were created after
  1910 by Australian composers/song writers, and
  identify and discuss ways in which expressive
  elements of music, including tone colour, blend
  of instrumental voices, balance of music
  parts/lines, articulation, ornamentation/embellish
  ment (melodic, harmonic and rhythmic), dynamic
  range and shape, phrase shaping and tempo
  choices, have been interpreted to achieve
  expressive outcomes and create character in
  performance

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• Elements of Music

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Listening Journal

• Name the instruments
• Detail the Form/structure
• Rhythm
• Melody
• Harmony
• Tone Colour
• Texture
• Instrument techniques
• Style?

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Key Words

• Melody
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• Ascending, descending, repetitive, short, long,
  high, low, wide range, small range,
  stepwise/smooth, based on a scale, based on a
  triad, jagged, made up of phrases, uses
  sequences, tonality scale forms, modal,contour,
  draw a line-graph of the phrase shape, upbeat,
  anacrusis, angular contour (leaps), motive,
  register, unison, chromaticism
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• Rhythm
• Riff, straight, shuffle, jazz, swing, latin,
  describe note values within a phrase, short
  rhythmic patterns, call and response, ostinatos,
  off beat, notation, time signatures, mixed
  metres, polyrhythms, dotted rhythms, even,
  syncopation, tacet, duration, note values, pulse,
  regular, irregular, repetitive, hemiola,
  isometric
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• Used as to maintain momentum, as part of the
  structure/form, ostinato, to provide pulse/beat,
  to create unity, to create contrast
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• Harmony
• Chord progression, tonality, primary triads,
  7ths, altered chords, describe the chords within
  a phrase, modulation, consonance, dissonance,
  resolution
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Key Words

• Dynamics
• Loud, soft, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo,
  fade-out, fade-in, moderately loud, moderately
  soft, sforzando, smorzando
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• Tone Colour
• Timbre, warm, cold, shrill, mellow, woody,
  bright, bleak, dark, light, heavy, percussive,
  Guitar amp effects, effects units, Powerchords,
  mute
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• Texture
• Monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic
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• Interpretation
• Rubato, rallentando, register, Piano pedalling,
  vibrato, change of register,
• Recording techniques effects, reverberation,
  mutlitracking,
• Ornamentation trills, mordents, drops offs,
  smears, pause, harmonics, melismas, scat,
• Articulation legato smooth, semi-legato,
  staccato, mezzo-staccato, marcato, accents,
  tenuto, slides, bends, hammer ons, pull offs,
  damping, pizzicato, double stop, mute
• Tempo slow, fast, broadly, lively, accelerando,
  rallentando, ritenuto, ritardando,

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Listening Journal

• Describe the different rhythms heard in excerpt 1
• Write the different rhythms heard in excerpt 1
  that you have described 
• Describe the shape of the melody in excerpt 2 
• Draw the shape of the melody in excerpt 2
• Describe the variations in tone colour throughout
  the excerpt
• Describe the structural and expressive role of
  each instrument in excerpt 2

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Listening Journal

• Select one instrument, and detail the use of
  articulation throughout the excerpt
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• Write the rhythm of 2 instruments/voices that
  performed in excerpt 1, include the articulations
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• Identify and describe the interpretative
  decisions you believe is evident in the
  pre-recorded work
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• What expressive elements have been used in the
  excerpt and what effect do they have?

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Keywords highlighted to extend language skills
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Listening Journal

• What style is this piece of Music? Describe why
  you think it is this style.
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• Discuss how the performers approached performing
  the melody and rhythm to highlight the style.
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• Discuss how the performers approached performing
  the melody and rhythm to demonstrate variety
  within the style.
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Listening Journal

• Describe the similarities and differences between
  how the different instruments are being played.
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• Describe the similarities and differences between
  excerpt 1 2
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• Describe the similarities and differences with
  the rhythms being performed.
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• Describe the similarities and differences with
  the expressive elements used.

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eMail Address

• morton.lynne._at_edumail.vic.gov.au