Elements and Performance Criteria
- Follow safe voice practices
- Apply a knowledge of basic anatomy and physiology to breath control, voice production and articulation of speech
- Demonstrate correct physical posture and stance to enhance efficient breathing and voice production
- Discuss with relevant personnel activities and factors that may inhibit or damage voice, voice projection and singing
- Perform relaxation and warm-up routines suitable for the voice in performance
- Practise technical control and vocal range
- Apply vocal techniques to show freeing and breathing exercises and flexibility and control of articulation
- Extend personal potential by practising intricate arrays of singing sound through technical speech and voice exercises
- Reinforce strength of voice and throat by undertaking ongoing exercises to maintain and develop posture, breathing control and vocal range
- Enhance vocal technique, harmony, accuracy and strength through regular practice
- Incorporate music and vocal practice terminology into activities and discussions
- Perform elements of a major scale and its modes
- Determine the characteristics of a style or piece of music in terms of the way musical elements are combined and manipulated or interpreted through voice and body movements
- Develop a repertoire of basic music knowledge and appreciation to identify styles of composition and sounds
- Read and interpret a set of notes in treble and bass clef and notes performed through singing
- Reproduce through sound a course of principal chords, intervals and tetrachords of a major scale from a keyboard and from a piece of music
- Sing alone, or with others, sequences of notes of a major scale using a range of pitch, time, rhythm and diatonic intervals
- Play rhythmic music on percussion instruments
- Apply understanding of the relationships between the body, voice, posture and playing musical instruments when producing sound and singing
- Identify how the physical characteristics and parts of conventional and non-conventional percussion instruments produce sound
- Identify the way in which musical elements and sounds produced by percussion instruments form a distinctive character of a piece of music or performance
- Maintain and care for instruments and store according to manufacturer requirements
- Prepare the physical environment, instruments and voice in preparation for practice and performance
- Comply with health and safety requirements to minimise environmental impact of performances
- Develop technical skills and proficiency in producing the required patterns, elements and techniques of singing and playing percussion instruments
- Sing in an ensemble and solo
- Play and sing a range of rhythms and styles of music on different forms of percussion instruments, solo and ensemble
- Perform an ensemble of simple songs, a cappella and accompanied by music, musicians or instruments
- Apply dramatic or emotive nuances to the performance of accompanied and unaccompanied songs
- Apply understanding of the principles of non-verbal communication to changes of tone, timbre of voice and projection of vocal sound
- Discuss performance with relevant personnel and use feedback to identify and develop ways to improve own performance skills