Writing texts program notes and artistic statements enable the student to both to communicate their intentions to their audience and reflect on the way they are interpreting music (in the context of performance) or creating meaning through composition.Įvaluation and reflection of one's work is a strategy that research shows has a positive impact on learning and literacy (Benander & Rafaei, 2016 Pedro, Abodeeb-Gentile, & Courtney, 2012). One way musicians communicate their musical intentions is through providing written texts to accompany their compositions and performances. Justifying and explaining musical intentions

After receiving feedback on their texts, students review and edit their work for submission/publication.

Once they have written the text, students share with their peers, who annotate and highlight their texts according to the features of the genre and provide feedback.

Students (individually or jointly) construct a text in the appropriate genre, using the sample/model as a guide.

The teacher models annotating these features and the students use this as the basis for their annotations.

Language features including sentence structure, tense and language choices are identified and discussed.

The teacher provides lists of the text features of this genre, and the students highlight these when reading the text.

The teacher and students deconstruct model or mentor texts of the given genre (these samples can be published, or models created by the teacher or by previous students). In this strategy, the teacher provides authentic examples of the desired genre and students learn about the features of these texts before creating their own. By making the structures and purposes of these genres visible, students are better able to produce texts that enable them to communicate with other musicians (become part of the discourse community) (Derewianka & Jones, 2016 Rose & Martin, 2012).

Unpacking genreĪll disciplines and subject use specific written genres or text types to communicate knowledge and meaning. This strategy is then applied to examples of texts that could be used with this strategy.

In this section, one key strategy-unpacking genre-is used to support students to create these various kinds of texts.

Researching music history, culture, and style.

Reviewing, analysing, and evaluating music.

Justifying and explaining musical intentions.

Finally, performers, composers and listeners use written text to communicate information about musical styles, performers, histories, and cultures. Written texts are also used by listeners to analyse, review, and evaluate musical compositions and performances. Sustained written text is used in music by composers and performers to justify and explain their musical intentions.

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