The Concepts of Music
The six concepts that describe any music, and the vocabulary to name what you hear.
- Duration: beat, rhythm, metre, tempo
- Pitch: melody, harmony, tonality
- Dynamics and expressive techniques
NSW Music Stage 4 (Year 7) - the concepts of music; listening and analysis; performing and composing - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Music - Year 7” 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.
The six concepts that describe any music, and the vocabulary to name what you hear.
Listening with a purpose: describing what happens, where, and what it does.
Making music: building technique, playing in time, and composing with a small set of ideas.
A Music - Year 7 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 | Short answer | 3–4 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| design | Short answer | 3–5 |
| discuss | Extended response | 5–6 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 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.