Students create multidisciplinary presentations to demonstrate each of the principles of design in music and in one or more of the other fine arts. Listen to music from a variety of cultures and time periods, and analyse their forms. Students then compose and notate short works based on contrasting forms. Students create visual representations of their works, showing the contrast in form. This is an ongoing activity students add to their dictionaries as they learn new terms.
Students identify and define examples of vocabulary in performance literature.
Students then create word webs representing connections between music styles. Students listen to recordings of music from a variety of historical and cultural contexts, and compare and contrast the forms of the compositions through discussion, written analysis, visual representations, and so on. For example, students may decide it is important to say something positive about a person's representation before they present their criticism. Have them present and explain the intention of their work to the class. Note the extent to which students use the criteria in giving presentations and making comments to other students.