CLANCY CATHOLIC COLLEGE

Year 8 Music
Assessment Task 1
Film Composition
NAME: TEACHER: Mr. Alvear, Mrs. Morandin, Mr. Scicluna

DUE DATE: Week 7, Term 1 DATE SUBMITTED: To be advised by your teacher in which lesson of
- In class : 13 - 17 March Week 7

KLA: CAPA - Music WEIGHTING: 40%

(Composition: 35%, Aural: 5%)

HOW TO SUBMIT: Your assessment will be submitted in the following manner:

Hand in this assessment notification with a completed copy of the attached worksheets to your teacher
and a MuseScore File of your final composition.

Assessment Policy:
This task is a formal assessment. It requires each student to demonstrate their understanding of the course studied by devoting sufficient
time and effort to meeting the requirements as clearly stated below. This task must be submitted on time. The following reasons are not
valid excuses for late submission of tasks; computer difficulties, printer problems, or lack of organisation. It is understood that any
difficulty with the task must be brought to the attention of the classroom teacher several days before the due date of the task.

Declaration of Originality:
In accordance with the College Assessment Policy, I declare that this submission is my own work and that to the best of my knowledge, it
contains no material previously published or written by another person except where acknowledgement has been made.

Student Signature: ___________________________________________

LIFE SKILLS SYLLABUS REPORT ABOVE LEVEL

SYLLABUS OUTCOMES OUTCOMES OUTCOMES REPORT OUTCOMES

LS.4 experiments in
organising musical sounds
4.4 Demonstrates an understanding
of musical concepts through
exploring, experimenting,
improvising, organising and
composing
4.5 Notates compositions using
traditional notation
Understands the use of the musical concepts
in the composition process using different
forms of notation and technology in a range
of styles.
Understands the
manipulation of the musical
concepts in the composition
process successfully using a
traditional notation and
technology to help define a
particular mood.

LS.7 communicates music
from a variety of music.
4.9 Demonstrates musical literacy Demonstrates an understanding of the use of
through the use of notation, the musical concepts through the discussion
terminology and the reading and of their features
interpreting of scores used in the
music selected for study
4.11 Demonstrates an appreciation,
tolerance and respect for the
aesthetic value of music as an art
form
 CORE INSTRUCTIONS

You have been chosen to compose a soundtrack to a new movie. The director has provided you with a number of
still shots from the film, and wants you to compose and notate music for one of them on the piano.

Choose one of the still shots located in your drive - Music Image Folder
Compose and notate an 8-bar melody to accompany the still shot on MuseScore. Your melody should
portray the mood and emotion present in the image. Your melody is to use either the C Major or A minor
scale.
Compose and notate an accompaniment to your melody on MuseScore. Choose from one of the following:
Drone
Chords

Write a response text type outlining:

the still shot you have chosen
the mood demonstrated in the still shot
the way you have used TWO of the music concepts in your composition to portray the mood in the
still shot e.g. duration, pitch, structure and dynamics.

ABOVE LEVEL INSTRUCTIONS

In this same film the director is unsure of how to finish off the movie. They know what the final shot will look
like but they are unable to decide on the ending mood. The director has provided you with a still shot and wants
you to compose the music for it. Because the still shot mood is ambiguous they have given you a checklist /
scaffold that they want you use in order to help establish the mood of your choice. This will be discussed in the
Response text type.

Access the Above level still shot located in your drive - Music Image Folder
Compose and notate a two part 12-bar melody to accompany the still shot on MuseScore. Your melody
should portray the mood and emotion that you have decided based on the image.
Compose and notate an accompaniment to your melody on MuseScore using a Melodic Ostinato.
Write a response text type outlining:
the mood represented in the still shot and what are your reasons for having decided on the
mood.
How important was the manipulation of the concepts of music in helping you achieve the mood.
You will need to make references to the score and show where all the appropriate performance
directions and use of the concepts takes place.

LIFE SKILLS INSTRUCTIONS

 You have been chosen to compose a soundtrack to a new movie. The director has provided you with one still
shot from the film and they want you to compose and notate music for it. It is to be written for the piano.

Choose the Happy still shot which will be given to you in an email.
Using the scaffold supplied to you by your teacher, you will complete an 8-bar melody to accompany the
still shot on MuseScore. Your melody should portray the mood and emotion present in the image. Your
melody is to use the C Major scale.

Use the scaffold and circle your answers to respond outlining:

the still shot you have chosen and which mood it represents
the way you have used Duration and Pitch in your composition to portray the mood in the still
shot

Your melody will be played before the class as an Audio File from MuseScore.

YEAR 8 MUSIC COMPOSITION MARKING CRITERIA

GRADE DESCRIPTORS
(based on syllabus content statements, Common Grade Scale descriptors &/or Stage 5 Course Performance Descriptors)

Life Skills CORE CORE CORE CORE CORE

Achieved Domains E D C B A Above Level
OR (1-3) (4-6) (7-9) (10-12) (13-15) Achieved
Achieved
with
Support

LS.4 Melodic and o Limited o Basic melodic o Sound melodic o Thorough o Extensive o Highly
experiments Harmonic melodic and and harmonic and harmonic melodic and melodic and sophisticated level
in organising understanding harmonic understanding understanding harmonic harmonic of melodic and
musical understanding demonstrated demonstrated understanding understanding harmonic
sounds demonstrated through the through the demonstrated demonstrated understanding
through the simple sense of acceptable sense through the use of through the demonstrated
o Achieved ineffective phrasing, and of phrasing, and appropriate sense expert use of through the expert
o AWS sense of narrow use of C considerable use of phrasing, and phrasing, and use of phrasing and
phrasing major or A minor of C major or A well-developed accurate the choice of an
minor understanding of understanding of appropriate Key.
C major or A minor C major or A
minor

LS.4 Creation of o Limited o Basic o Sound o Thorough o Outstanding o Highly

experiments Mood portrayal of effectiveness at effectiveness at effectiveness at effectiveness at sophisticated level
in organising mood in chosen portraying mood portraying mood portraying mood of portraying mood of effectiveness at
musical image of chosen image of chosen image chosen image of chosen image portraying mood of
sounds chosen image

o Achieved
o AWS

LS.4 Notation Skills o Limited and/or o Basic and o Sound and o Thorough use of o Extensive and o Highly
experiments incorrect use of reasonable use correct use of appropriate accurate use of sophisticated and
in organising notation of notation notation including notation where all notation including accurate use of
musical correct number of beats are correctly clear alignment notation including
sounds beats per bar aligned, and clefs of beats, and clear alignment of
are mainly used correct use of beats, correct use
o Achieved correctly clefs of clefs.
o AWS

Zero Mark Non serious attempt of the task

0 Non-Submission
Plagiarism
 YEAR 8 MUSIC AURAL MARKING CRITERIA

GRADE DESCRIPTORS
(based on syllabus content statements, Common Grade Scale descriptors &/or Stage 5 Course Performance Descriptors)

Life Skills
Achieved Domain E D C B A
OR
Achieved
(1-2) (3-4) (5-6) (7-8) (9-10)
with
Support

LS.7 Discussion of o Elementary o Basic o Sound discussion o Thorough discussion o Extensive

communicate Musical identification identification and/or of 2-3 of the music of 3 of the music discussion of at least
s music from Concepts and/or discussion of at concepts in the concepts in the 3 of the music
a variety of discussion of 1 least 1 music response text type response text type concepts in the
music. music concept concept response text type

o Achieved
o AWS

Zero Mark Non serious attempt of the task

0 Non-Submission
Plagiarism
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CLASS:

TEACHER:

Response for the Year 8 Music Film Composition

Write a response text type outlining how you have used the following concepts of music in your
hen, Who, What and
composition. Remember to always write in full sentences using the structure W
How where possible.

Duration e.g. What is the time signature of your piece? What note lengths did you use? What is the
effect of using these note values? What is the tempo of your piece? What effect does this have on the
mood that you chose?

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Dynamics e.g. What Dynamics did you use? What effect did they create within your piece? How did
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Structure e.g. Describe the structure of your melody; does it build up to a climax?

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Pitch e.g. Describe the range of your melody. What Key ( C Major or A minor ) did you choose to
represent your mood? Did you use any repetition for a specific effect, and what was it? Describe the
contour of your melody.

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