Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify areas for aural skill development
- Plan development of aural perception skills in consultation with appropriate people
- Investigate the uses of aural perception and recognition skills
- Establish, for nominated music genres and styles, the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic music components and structures for recognition, in consultation with appropriate people
- Develop methods for the aural recognition of music
- Examine conventions of language and terminology connected to relevant music structures
- Investigate ways of hearing music, as well as listening for and naming relevant music structures
- Investigate music writing conventions connected with aural skill development
- Explore rhythmic, melodic and harmonic structures connected with aural skill development
- Practise aural recognition of music
- Identify aural recognition requirements through discussion with appropriate people
- Practise and develop the aural recognition of music structures
- Adhere to conventions of terminology and align recognition with notated music
- Reproduce basic music structures by playing them on basic instruments, voice or body percussion
- Evaluate progress of aural skills development