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
Year 12
Students explore how music reflects and communicates cultural, historical and regional identities in ONE chosen context from the list below:
- Music of a style
- Music of a region
- Music of a culture
- Music of a tradition
- Music of a religion
- Music of a historical period.
Students perform, compose, listen, analyse and respond to selected repertoire and its stylistic, expressive and structural characteristics. Students learn to recognise musical features and practices and investigate how these shape meaning and significance. They consider how these features and practices may be reinterpreted or adapted to generate and develop musical ideas. Students apply and adapt conventions with stylistic and expressive awareness to shape personal interpretations in performance.
Refine technical control to perform with fluency
Improvise using motifs, rhythmic patterns and harmonic ideas drawn from the selected cultural or historical context
Shape a stylistic and personal interpretation using performance techniques, phrasing, articulation and expressive elements
Apply composer, performer and audience perspectives to make performance choices that enhance communication, including staging and ensemble configurations
Analyse musical features that characterise stylistic, cultural or historical traditions
Use aural skills to identify and describe tonal centres, harmonic progressions, rhythmic groupings and phrasing
Analyse how instrumentation and timbral qualities reflect regional, cultural or historical identities
Interpret and analyse Notational language relevant to the selected repertoire
Explain the role of Compositional language in maintaining, transforming and reinterpreting musical traditions using appropriate music terminology
Explain the role of improvisation in shaping form and expression
Compare interpretations of repertoire to evaluate how stylistic and expressive features are shaped by performance choices
Experiment with a range of approaches to shaping musical ideas and expression, including transformation, technological manipulation and collaborative processes
Develop and extend musical ideas using Compositional language, structures and materials appropriate to the selected context
Evaluate and refine musical ideas to shape stylistic identity, structural coherence and expressive outcomes
Document ideas, reflections and refinements as part of the compositional process