Year 9 Music
An exciting 2022 has seen Year 9 Elective Music students exploring a wide range of musical genres through performance, composition and analysis activities.
The topics of study included Jazz, Classical Music and Music for Small Ensembles.
Performance Time!
To conclude the end of the year, students performed in small ensembles from a variety of genres. Check out their groovy work.
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Finlay and Luke playing "Africa"
James playing a Blues song on the guitar.
Tayla, Eugene, Maya and Aanya playing "Fight or Flight"
Matt performing "portrait of Tracy" on the bass
Johnny performing on the guitar.
"Now we has jazz!"
The creation of jazz by African-Americans is one of the most important musical achievements of the twentieth century. Its influence can be heard in all kinds of modern music, popular as well as in art music. With many of the students in the class already having a love of this music, it was time to educate the rest. Ensemble performances for the annual music concert explored several contrasting styles, while their composition skills were extended using a 12 bar blues variation called the ‘Quick Change Blues’. They used the program Flat.io to notate their compositions for sax, trombone, drums and guitar, including dynamics and performance techniques.
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