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Music Industry

What's it all about?

The music course is designed to develop the intellectual, aesthetic and cultural understanding of the value and importance of music. Through creating, interpreting and analysing works, students will learn about and apply musicianship. Students will enhance already existing musical skills through performance. The focus for this subject will be performance, aural comprehension/analysis and theory, composition and use of technology.


As part of this course, students are able to choose to complete a partial VET Certificate in Music Industry which will contribute credits to VCE and VC-VM.

(Music Industry is expected to be studied for both semesters)

What type of things will I do?

Performances, setting up and using a PA and the computer, Aural comprehension/analysis, theory and composition.

What will I learn?

TOPIC 1

  • Language of music (pitch, duration, dynamics, volume, tempo, tone colour, texture/timbre, instrumentation, tonality, articulation

TOPIC 2

  • Music principles and/or conventions

TOPIC 3

  • How to analyse, interpret, compare and evaluate the stylistic, technical, expressive and aesthetic features of music

What can this lead to?

University and TAFE courses in Music Industry, Music, Audio, Audio Production, Music Production, Song writing and Music Production, Audio Engineering. 

POSSIBLE PATHWAY 

YEAR                               COURSES OFFERED 

YEAR 10                              Music Industry 

YEAR 11                              Music Performance 

                                             IB Music 

                                             VET Certificate III in Music Industry (Sound Production)  

YEAR 12                              Music Performance 

                                             IB Music 

                                             VET Certificate III in Music Industry (Sound Production) 


Why choose this subject?

Choose this subject if you are interested in learning about music.

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