Learning Areas > Music
Head of Learning Area - Music: Jemima Bunn
P: +61 3 9816 1222 E: jemima.bunn@carey.com.au
About the Learning Area
Classroom Music in the Middle School
Music in the Middle School aims to actively involve all students in an engaging and active music program through a comprehensive and sequential curriculum. All students in Year 7 undertake a Classroom Music experience, involving activities that give them skills to make and create meaningful musical connections through playing instruments, composing, listening with informed hearing and working in a variety of settings to both recreate others and create original works. Regardless of the extent of their musical experience, activities in the Classroom Music Program provide opportunities for students with little familiarity, and extension opportunities to those who bring prior musical experiences with them.
With a general music program at Year 7, elective opportunities at Years 8, 9 & 10 and performance, composition and project-based opportunities in VCE and IB, Carey Baptist Grammar School provides a comprehensive music experience throughout all years.
Year 8 Music: Contemporary Storytellers
In Year 8, students are stepping into the world of contemporary music and the story of songs— and not just listening to it but really understanding it and creating it. Students will trace the journey from the raw emotion of the Blues as an African American artform to the energy of Rock and Roll, following the sound all the way through to the musical stories today. In this subject through performing, composing, listening, and collaborating, students will deepen their musical understanding in ways that are hands-on and real.
Year 9 Music: Creative Music Studio
In Year 9, students will step beyond simply playing music and begin to shape it with intention. Students will explore what it really means to create and perform music in today’s world, to be in the ‘Creative Music Studio’ — experimenting with melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, form and how to interact with music technology as they develop their own musical voice.
Instrumental Music Program
Students from all year levels with varying levels of experience are encouraged to learn an instrument and perform with one or more of the many Middle School music performance groups. This is a Co-Curricular program where students join appropriate groups according to their level of expertise.
The major co-curricular groups:
- Orpheus Choir.
- Year 7 Wind Band.
- Intermediate Band.
- Concert Band
- Chamber String Orchestra
- Hibbert Strings
- Gleadall Strings
- Guitar/Mandolin Ensemble.
- Symphonic Band.
In addition, students may audition or apply to become members of performance groups:
- Chamber Choir.
- Jazz Bands.
- Music Theatre Ensemble — Cast, Crew and Band.
Musical Productions, Music Performance and Tuition Programs
Please see the Co-curricular pages for more information about musical productions, music performance and music tuition.
