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Music - Sound Arts: Achievement Objectives

	Understanding Music - Sound Arts in Context (UC)	Developing Practical Knowledge in Music - Sound Arts (PK)	Developing Ideas in Music - Sound Arts (DI)	Communicating and Interpreting in Music - Sound Arts (CI)
Level 1	Explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments and recognise that music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.	Explore how sound is made, as they listen and respond to the elements of music: beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour.	Explore and express sounds and musical ideas, drawing on personal experience, listening, and imagination. Explore ways to represent sound and musical ideas.	Share music making with others. Respond to live and recorded music.
Level 2	Explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments and recognise that music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.	Explore and identify how sound is made and changed, as they listen and respond to the elements of music and structural devices.	Improvise, explore, and express musical ideas, drawing on personal experience, listening, and imagination. Explore ways to represent sound and musical ideas.	Share music making with others, using basic performance skills and techniques. Respond to live and recorded music.
Level 3	Identify and describe the characteristics of music associated with a range of sound environments, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts. Explore ideas about how music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.	Explore and identify how sound is made and changed, as they listen and respond to music and apply knowledge of the elements of music, structural devices, and technologies.	Express and shape musical ideas, using musical elements, instruments, and technologies in response to sources of motivation. Represent sound and musical ideas in a variety of ways.	Prepare and present brief performances of music, using performance skills and techniques. Respond to and reflect on live and recorded music.
Level 4	Identify and describe the characteristics of music associated with a range of sound environments, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts. Explore ideas about how music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.	Apply knowledge of the elements of music, structural devices, and technologies through integrating aural, practical, and theoretical skills.	Express, develop, and refine musical ideas, using the elements of music, instruments, and technologies in response to sources of motivation. Represent sound and musical ideas in a variety of ways.	Prepare, rehearse, and present performance of music, using performance skills and techniques. Reflect on the expressive qualities of their own and others' music, both live and recorded.
Level 5	Compare and contrast the characteristics of music associated with a range of sound environments, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts. Investigate how music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.	Apply knowledge of the elements of music, structural devices, stylistic conventions, and technologies through integrating aural, practical, and theoretical skills.	Use musical elements, instruments, technologies, and conventions to express, develop, and refine structured compositions and improvisations. Represent compositions and improvisation frameworks, using appropriate conventions.	Prepare, rehearse, and present performances of music, using a range of performance skills and techniques. Reflect on the expressive qualities of their own and others' music, both live and recorded.
Level 6	Analyse music from a range of sound environments, styles, and genres, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts. Consider and reflect on the influence of music in their own music making and in their lives.	Apply knowledge of expressive features, stylistic conventions, and technologies through an integration of aural perception and practical and theoretical skills and describe how they are used in a range of music.	Create, structure, refine, and represent compositions using the elements of music, instruments, technologies, and conventions to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings. Reflect on composition processes and presentation conventions.	Prepare, rehearse, interpret, and present performances of music individually and collaboratively, using a range of performance skills and techniques. Reflect on the expressive qualities of music and evaluate their own and others' music, both live and recorded.
Level 7	Research and analyse music from a range of sound environments, styles, and genres, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts, considering the impact on music making and production. Apply their understandings of the expressive qualities of music from a range of contexts to a consideration of their influence on their own music practices.	Apply knowledge of expressive features, stylistic conventions, and technologies through an integration of aural perception and practical and theoretical skills and analyse how they are used in a range of music.	Create, structure, refine, and represent compositions and musical arrangements using technical and musical skills and technologies to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings. Reflect on and evaluate composition processes and presentation conventions.	Prepare, rehearse, present, record, and evaluate sustained performances of music, individually and collaboratively, that demonstrate interpretive understandings. Analyse and evaluate the expressive qualities of music and production processes to inform interpretations of music.
Level 8	Research, analyse and evaluate the production and presentation of music works from historical, social and cultural contexts. Apply their understandings of the expressive qualities of music from a range of contexts to analyse the impact on their own music practices.	Analyse, apply, and evaluate significant expressive features and stylistic conventions and technologies in a range of music, using aural perception and practical and theoretical skills.	Create, structure, refine, and represent compositions and musical arrangements, using secure technical and musical skills and technologies to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings. Reflect on and evaluate composition processes and presentation conventions.	Plan, rehearse, present, record, evaluate, and refine performances of music, individually and collaboratively, demonstrating interpretive understandings. Critically analyse and evaluate the expressive qualities of music and production processes in order to refine interpretations of music.