Elective: Worlds of Upheaval

1 dot points across 1 inquiry question, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

How do composers construct worlds in upheaval, and what does disorder let a text reveal that a stable world could not?

Students examine how composers construct worlds in states of upheaval, disorder and transformation, and how such instability illuminates human responses to crisis

A focused account of the Worlds of Upheaval elective, where the constructed world is destabilised by crisis, collapse or transformation. How upheaval is built structurally rather than merely depicted, why instability illuminates human responses a stable world cannot, and how to argue the concept without retelling the plot of the disaster.

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