8T+Popular+Music

=Year 8 Musicology Assessment Task =

**Context** : In this unit of work, students will be undertaking a broad survey of the characteristics of the music of the Popular Music. Students experience a variety of listening and score reading examples to determine characteristics of the various genres within this topic. Performances will be in the form of classroom arrangements and vocal selections from within the topic.

A student:

 * demonstrates an understanding of musical concepts through the analysis, comparison, and critical discussion of music from different stylistic, social, cultural and historical contexts
 * demonstrates an understanding of musical concepts through aural identification, discrimination, memorisation and notation in the music selected for study
 * demonstrates an understanding of musical literacy through the appropriate application of notation, terminology, and the interpretation and analysis of scores used in the music selected for study

 Students to research the music of a popular music music composer. Through the course of the research, students should investigate the characteristics of the music of their composer and find recorded examples to support their findings. On completion of research each group is to present their findings in the form of a page on the MC Music Wiki.
 * Description of Activity** :

**1–4** || **Satisfactory** **5-7** || **High** **8-10** ||
 * **A Student:** || **Progressing**
 * Demonstrates musicological Focus ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Demonstrates aural awareness and understanding of the musical concepts and their relationship to the chosen topic ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Supports the discussion with musical examples ||  ||   ||   ||

**Task**

Students will be asked to research and present in the form of a Wiki the music of a Popular Music Composer. **This is not to be simply a biography of the composer but rather an analysis of the music concepts and characteristics of the music of that composer**. Each student will be given a composer to research and they will analyse the types of music they have written.

Each student should include in their wiki recorded examples of the composers’ music. The information on the Wiki page will form the basis of study notes for the rest of the class.

Queen - Josh, Louis, Solomon, Noah U2 - Jamie, Willis, Zac, Jay Bon Jovi - Kye, Philip, Elias ABBA - Emily, Emma, Klaudia, Riley, Alyssa Michael Jackson - Sophia, Maddie, Sam, Hannah Elvis Presley - Nithu, Thomas Nirvanna - Emma, Ashleigh, Darcy, Liam Bryan Adams - Angelique