It is expected that students will create, listen to, and perform music, demonstrating understanding of expressive and physical properties of melody .
Students improvise variations of a known melody.
Students create a melody for a poem. Practise using computer technology to execute similar transformations. Analyse melodies for patterns and describe how the patterns affect expressive phrasing. To demonstrate expressive phrasing, students perform a phrase of music using melodic patterns in the phrase. Ask what characteristics of melody are most commonly used for the type of work they do.