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MUSIC

Music is a unique art form that uses sound and silence It is particularly beneficial for students in senior years
as a means of personal expression. It allows for the to have proficiency in an instrument or voice and basic
expression of emotion, meaning, imagination and values. theory knowledge and understanding.

In Year 11 and 12, students study:
Career Opportunities:
• Designs: understanding of the different ways music
can be designed to communicate meaning • Arts administration and management, e.g. artist
• Identities: exploration of the ways music can express manager, arts administrator, booking agent,
cultural, social and political identities on both a global copyright/royalties manager, music accountant,
scale and local context orchestra manager, production music manager,
• Innovations: exploration of innovative practices in record producer, studio manager, tour manager,
music both pre and post 1950 venue manager
• Narratives: understanding of the ways music can • Communication, e.g. music copyist, music editor,
effectively communicate a story and evoke an music librarian, print music manager, sound
emotional response in an audience archivist
• Education, e.g. arts educator, instrumental
Studying Music will enable students to do the following: teacher, studio teacher, university music
academic
• Develop musicianship through the making of music • Creative industries, e.g. backing musician,
(composition and performance) and responding to composer, conductor, creative entrepreneur,
music (musicology) instrument repairer, music director, performer,
• Resolve and realise musical ideas to convey meaning presenter, recording engineer, repetiteur, stage
and/or emotion to an audience manager
• Critically evaluate music through the synthesis of • Public relations, e.g. creative director, music
analytical information to justify a viewpoint lawyer, music merchandiser
• Develop the capacity for working independently and • Science and technology, e.g. music therapist,
collaboratively and for flexible thinking and doing music video clip director, new media artist,
producer, programmer, sound designer

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