CULTURAL MUSIC - Full Year

Cultural Music 1 is a NCEA level one music course designed for Māori and Pasifika students and covers the three main strands of Music: performing music, creating music, and understanding music. This is studied with a focus on ākonga’s personal culture and tīkanga. This course will be presented as a portfolio with the highest quality work being submitted for assessment.

Your musical journey will also include the following:

• Exploring your own musical whakapapa.

• Investigating the various elements of different cultures and their impact on the music within those cultures.

• Understanding how music is a waka to explore diverse worldviews.

• Tāonga Pūoro (Māori musical instruments).

In general, the course is taught holistically, with all aspects covered throughout the year. Many skills and dispositions are developed that are crucial for musicians, and these form the basis of teaching and learning in the course:

• Confidence, self-belief and resilience: Every performance is a risk. Successful musicians embrace

this and, while striving for their best, accept that there is never a ‘perfect’ performance.

• Creativity: Music is a creative pursuit. In senior Music classes, students really begin to develop

their own voice and style as a performer and creator.

• Self-management: motivating and organising yourself to consistently practise your instrument

and work on composition. Preparing for performance and creating original music are processes

that require consistent time over a sustained period.

• Collaboration, empathy and connectedness: Creating and making music are collaborative

processes. There are many opportunities to share and be inspired by the other members of the

class and wider Papanui Music whānau.

• Future pathways: CMS21F