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Unit 4: Innovations
Quick questions on Analysing unseen works: WACE Year 12 Music
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What is triage on the first encounter?Show answer
In the first moments, settle the broad questions that frame everything else:
What is work the elements as a checklist?Show answer
Run down the elements quickly, noting one specific observation each: pitch and melody, rhythm and metre, harmony and tonality, texture, timbre, dynamics, form and expression. This guarantees full coverage even under pressure. Then develop the two or three most significant observations into evidenced points, each naming a feature, its effect and where it occurs.
What is discussing innovation?Show answer
For the innovations theme, after describing how the work is built, ask what is new or unconventional about it: an unusual harmony or scale, a new use of technology, a stretched or broken form, a hybrid of styles, or an extended performance technique. Explain the innovation against the convention it departs from, because innovation only has meaning relative to an established norm.
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