Aural Skills
Transcription, interval and chord recognition, and describing an excerpt accurately by ear.
- Aural Skills
- Melodic Dictation
- Harmonic Recognition
NSW Music 2 Stage 6 structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Music 2” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Transcription, interval and chord recognition, and describing an excerpt accurately by ear.
Analytical writing about music, and the concepts applied to scores and recordings.
Mandatory and elective topics: Australian music, music of the last 25 years, music 1900 to 1945, and music of a culture.
Compositional craft at a level that supports analytical writing about structure and materials.
Interpretation and technique, including the analytical reasoning a program note requires.
A Music 2 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Extended response | 8–10 |
| analyse | Short answer | 3–6 |
| apply | Short answer | 3–6 |
| assess | Short answer | 3–5 |
| compare | Short answer | 3–6 |
| describe | Short answer | 3–6 |
| design | Short answer | 3–5 |
| develop | Short answer | 3–5 |
| discuss | Short answer | 3–6 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 3–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–6 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| identify | Short answer | 2–4 |
| justify | Short answer | 3–5 |
| solve | Short answer | 2–4 |
HSC Music 2 - Written Paper Shape — 60 marks, 120 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.