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7–10Music 7–10 Syllabus (2024)

Implementation from 2026
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Content

Stage 4

Composing
Music in practice
  • Improvise and creatively explore Loading  in response to a stimulus

  • Improvise and experiment to communicate musical ideas

  • Experiment with different ways of combining musical ideas

  • Use a range of Loading , Loading , Loading  and digital technologies to improvise, generate, compose, manipulate, Loading , Loading  and Loading  musical ideas

  • Document musical ideas using Loading  appropriate to the Loading 

  • Reflect on and document in writing compositional choices and processes

Music in context
  • Explore how Loading  of different styles and media can be used to create meaning

  • Create musical ideas reflective of a Loading  or style

  • Compose music inspired and influenced by Australian works, including Aboriginal music within appropriate local Loading , while working with local Community Knowledge Holders where possible

  • Research cultural, historical and social influences to inform own compositions

  • Compose with a consideration of performer and Loading  Loading 

  • Adapt pieces of music or their features for new purposes

  • Apply Loading  with respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians, Communities and Cultural Knowledges, as well as Loading 

  • Apply the protocols and responsibilities of working safely and respectfully with others

  • Demonstrate understanding of risks and protocols related to information, identity and Loading  when sharing compositions or other material on public or private forums

Elements of music
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  • Explore how the elements of music can be used and combined to create and communicate musical ideas through improvising and composing

  • Reflect on the use of the elements of music in own compositions and the compositions of others

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