11–12Music 1 11–12 Syllabus (2025)
The new Music 1 11–12 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2027 and will replace the Music 1 Stage 6 Syllabus (2009).
2026
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027, Term 1
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 11
- Start implementing the new Year 11 school-based assessment requirements
- Continue to teach the Music 1 Stage 6 Syllabus (2009) for Year 12
2027, Term 4
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 12
- Start implementing the new Year 12 school-based assessment requirements
2028
- First HSC examination for the new syllabus
Content
Life Skills
Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.
Students explore how music serves a specific purpose within artistic, social or communicative contexts through one of the following styles:
- Music for visual media
- Music for theatre
- Music for dance
- Music for entertainment
- Music for ritual and ceremony
- Music for communication and storytelling.
Students perform, create, listen and respond to music to explore how music can be used to tell stories, express emotions or support important moments within a broader medium or experience. They explore how different musical sounds, styles and techniques are used to reflect the story or mood. Students examine the role of expression and performance techniques in supporting dramatic or narrative function and understand how music can be made or adapted to fit a scene or story.
Music context and Elements of music should be integrated with this focus area as appropriate to the needs, abilities and prior learning of students.
Experiment with ways that music can be used to develop mood and create atmosphere
Experiment with ways that music can be used to support the setting or theme
Experiment with ways that music can be used to reflect a character or the relationships between characters
Use the Elements of music to support storytelling for performances
Participate in performing music for aspects of screen, stage and story
Participate in a group performance with an awareness of others
Engage with screen or stage productions to recognise live and recorded music
Engage with music that supports storytelling in a range of contexts
Communicate preferences for live or recorded music
Explore ways that stories and emotions are conveyed through music
Explore how lyrics are used to support a story or character in music
Recognise the influence and role of technologies in the creation, performance and production of music
Make choices about sound sources to create music
Explore compositional techniques used
Experiment with the Elements of music to compose music
Make choices about structure when composing music
Participate in composing lyrics for a piece of music
Demonstrate safe practices when listening and responding, creating and composing or performing music
Demonstrate hygiene protocols when sharing instruments and resources
Demonstrate respectful and cooperative behaviours when working with others
Demonstrate appropriate protocols when engaging with live or online music
Acknowledge composers, arrangers and/or collaborators when performing, creating or composing pieces of music