Pre VCE Music Performance

year long

Rationale

Pre VCE Music equips students with personal and musical skills that enable them to follow pathways into VCE Music Performance units 1 – 4. Pre VCE Music will model units 1 and 2 of VCE Music. It will be made up of 3 units. Each unit will address specific content designed to enable students to achieve a set of outcomes for each of the 3 units.

Structure

Outcome 1

Students select a program of group or solo works. Students are free to select these works from a range of sources. The program should allow the student to demonstrate a range of technical, stylistic and interpretative demands and should be appropriate to their developing level of technical expertise. Students are encouraged to explore repertoire that extends the boundaries of their current interests and knowledge.

Outcome 2

Students prepare a technical program designed to build and extend their skills and confidence as performers. The program should address technical and expressive issues relevant to the student’s preparation and performance practice of works selected for Outcome 1 and their overall development as a musician.

Outcome 3

Teachers select works and excerpts for study through critical listening and analysis. This outcome will also address theoretical and aural skills.

Works selected for study should extend students’ knowledge and understanding of ways that performers make musical decisions. Theoretical and Aural understanding of music is to help and encourage students to understand what decisions they are making in a practical setting and why they are making those decisions. 

Assessment

Satisfactory completion: The award of satisfactory completion for a unit is based on the teacher’s decision that the student has demonstrated achievement of the set of outcomes specified for the unit. Demonstration of achievement of outcomes and satisfactory completion of a unit are determined by evidence gained through the assessment of a range of learning activities and tasks.