by Kirsten LLOYD | May 2, 2024 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Music, Secondary Music
The grade 7s are beginning their final unit in Music with a TOK-themed question: What is Music? Does it have to have a rhythm? What about a clear tonal language? Can Music only be made with specific instruments or can anything make Music? Does it have to be...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Apr 18, 2024 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
This week, the DP Music students in Grade 12 have been working to finish up their last assessment for the course. Unlike other DP Courses, DP Music does not have formal sit-down exams, but rather three large projects that are completed over the two years and...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Jan 25, 2024 | Community and Service, Grade 9, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
In a PBL (Project Based Learning), the Grade 9 practiced their fledgling composition skills through the lens of Advocacy Music. Each student selected a Sustainable Development Goal to use as stimuli for their compositions. As a class, we focused on how to use timbre,...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Jan 25, 2024 | Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
The grade 8 students have been wrapping up a long unit looking at the musical styles and genres of the Americans. Starting with understanding the historical impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the Northern and Southern American continents, the students looked...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Nov 30, 2023 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
As part of the Year Five assessments, the grade 10s will be completing the E.Portfolio. This culminating project of their MYP learning is an opportunity for the students to share what they have learned over the past five years. Each year, the IB sends out a new unit...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Sep 14, 2023 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Music, Secondary Music
For AOI 3 (Absolute Music), the Grade 12 DP Music students are learning about experimental and avant garde composition techniques popularized during the 20th century. Instead of focusing on the traditional ideas of tonality and melody, many composers began to look...
