Music · Curriculum Map
36 verified official outcomes stored in iLEARN.
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1.2 · Procedural knowledge · Creating and exploring
create and present a short piece, using instruments and/or other sounds in response to a stimulus
Common level · Junior Cycle Music current specification
Official strands
- Procedural knowledge
- Innovate and ideate
- Culture and context
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1.1 · Procedural knowledge — compose and perform or play back short musical phrases and support these phrases by creating rhythmic/melodic/harmonic ostinati to accompany them1.10 · Procedural knowledge — discuss the characteristics and defining features of contrasting styles of music represented in the local school or community1.11 · Procedural knowledge — illustrate the structure of a piece of music through a physical or visual representation1.12 · Procedural knowledge — indicate where chord changes occur in extracts from a selection of songs1.13 · Procedural knowledge — compare different interpretations or arrangements of a piece of Irish traditional music, paying attention to musical elements and other influences1.14 · Procedural knowledge — compare pieces of music that are similar in period and style by different composers from different countries1.2 · Procedural knowledge — create and present a short piece, using instruments and/or other sounds in response to a stimulus1.3 · Procedural knowledge — design a harmonic or rhythmic accompaniment, record this accompaniment and improvise over this recording1.4 · Procedural knowledge — indicate chords that are suitable to provide harmonic support to a single melody line1.5 · Procedural knowledge — read, interpret and play from symbolic representations of sounds1.6 · Procedural knowledge — listen to and transcribe rhythmic phrases of up to four bars and melodic phrases of up to two bars1.7 · Procedural knowledge — perform music at sight through playing, singing or clapping melodic and rhythmic phrases1.8 · Procedural knowledge — rehearse and perform pieces of music that use common structural devices and textures1.9 · Procedural knowledge — demonstrate an understanding of a range of metres and pulses through the use of body percussion or other means of movement2.1 · Innovate and ideate — experiment and improvise with making different types of sounds on a sound source and notate a brief piece that incorporates the sounds by devising symbolic representations for these sounds2.10 · Innovate and ideate — develop a set of criteria for evaluating a live or recorded performance; use these criteria to complete an in-depth review of a performance2.11 · Innovate and ideate — evaluate the impact that technology is having in how we access music; propose ways that their music and that of their fellow students can be shared to reach a global audience2.2 · Innovate and ideate — create a musical statement (such as a rap or an advertising jingle) about a topical issue or current event and share with others the statement’s purpose and development2.3 · Innovate and ideate — adapt excerpts/motifs/themes from an existing piece of music by changing its feel, style, or underlying harmony2.4 · Innovate and ideate — rehearse and present a song or brief instrumental piece; identify and discuss the performance skills and techniques that were necessary to interpret the music effectively2.5 · Innovate and ideate — prepare and rehearse a musical work for an ensemble focusing on co-operation and listening for balance and intonation; refine the interpretation by considering elements such as clarity, fluency, musical effect and style2.6 · Innovate and ideate — design a rhythmic or melodic ostinato and add layers of sound over the pattern as it repeats, varying the texture to create a mood piece to accompany a film clip or sequence of images2.7 · Innovate and ideate — create and present some musical ideas using instruments and/or found sounds to illustrate moods or feelings expressed in a poem, story or newspaper article2.8 · Innovate and ideate — analyse the chord progressions of excerpts from a range of songs and compile a list of songs with similar chord progressions2.9 · Innovate and ideate — distinguish between the ranges and timbres of selections of instruments and voices; identify how these sounds are produced and propose their strengths and limitations in performance3.1 · Culture and context — collaborate with fellow students and peers to produce a playlist and a set of recordings to accompany a local historical event or community celebration3.10 · Culture and context — discuss the principles of music property rights and explain how this can impact on the sharing and publishing of music3.11 · Culture and context — explore the time allocated to Irish artists and performers on a variety of local or national Irish media and present these findings to their class3.2 · Culture and context — examine and interpret the impact of music on the depiction of characters, their relationships and their emotions, as explored in instrumental music of different genres3.3 · Culture and context — make a study of a particular contemporary or historical musical style; analyse its structures and use of musical devices, and describe how this style shares musical connections with other styles3.4 · Culture and context — compose and perform an original jingle or brief piece of music for use in a new advertisement for a product, and record the composition3.5 · Culture and context — devise and perform examples of incidental music that could be used in a variety of contexts or environments3.6 · Culture and context — associate music excerpts to a variety of texts (words, film, language) and justify the reasons as to why this piece of music was chosen to match the text3.7 · Culture and context — compare compositions by two or more Irish composers or songwriters; use listening, background reading, and scores (where appropriate) to explain and describe differences and similarities in the compositions3.8 · Culture and context — select a particular advertisement and analyse the role music plays in supporting the message and promoting the product3.9 · Culture and context — investigate the influence of processing effects (e.g. distortion, reverb, panning) on the recording process; select some recordings and evaluate the use and effectiveness of such effects within them