CAPA 2020YEAR 9

MUSIC

TERM 1

Baroque Music

Focus on creating compositions using notation software and Baroque compositional devices

Fundamentals of musical structure, as the rules of harmony were established

in the Baroque period.

Composition Assessment – DUE DATE: Week 9

MUSIC

TERM 2

Theatre Music with a look into how music tells a story.

Contemporary musicals such as Hamilton, Dear Evan Hanson, and

Come from Away

Excursion Term 3 - Come from Away.

Assessment – Performance where they can choose to play a piece

from either the Baroque or Musical Theatre genres. DUE DATE: Week 8

MUSIC

TERM 3

Australian Music

Focus question, "Does Australian music have a particular style or voice?". Looking at

influences from Aboriginal, folk and orchestral music, the students will create a

composition that reflects their interpretation of the Australian sound.

Composition and Process Diary task DUE DATE: Week 9

MUSIC

TERM 4

Popular Music

Work in small groups to create performances of popular pieces. They will also be

assessed on their understanding of music theory, based on the work they do each fortnight using music theory software Auralia and Musition in the computer lab

Performance Assessment: DUE DATE - Week 7

VISUAL ARTS

SEMESTER 1

AIM – To understand how artists create meaning through their choices of materials and techniques

WHAT WILL BE EXPLORED

Still Life – Looking at still life genre from 16th and 17th century, Dutch art to contemporary times

► How artists communicate ideas through selected signs and symbols

► Using the motif of ‘shoes’ as a starting point to explore still life through photographic and drawing practices

► Teaching explicit techniques of lighting, composition, tonal values, charcoal and pastel drawing techniques etc to explore each student’s artmaking practice.

VISUAL ARTS

Start with Blind Continuous Line Contour drawings

VISUAL ARTS

Move to continuous contour drawing

VISUAL ARTS

Explicit teaching of drawing techniques where drawings results go from this…

VISUAL ARTS

To this…….

VISUAL ARTS

Students create a Facebook profile for their chosen shoes that communicate the

personality and lifestyle of their shoes. They begin by taking a photo of their shoes for the profile page, lit and arranged like a Dutch still life master…

VISUAL ARTS

They then draw their shoes using a range of materials and techniques that further communicates ideas

VISUAL ARTS

Also explore Abstract Expressionism, mixed media and non-representational art

VISUAL ARTS

Portraits through oil painting, learning skills such as pose, lighting, colour mixing, paint

mediums etc. Studying portrait artists through the ages such as Artemesia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo and Cherry Hood

VISUAL ARTS

Visual Arts Diaries document student learning and show the development and resolution of

artworks

Photographic and Digital Media (PDM)

SEMESTER 1Year 9 PDM have made a sensational start to the year exploring basic camera functions with our new Digital SLR cameras as well as learning about the conventions of photography,

including rule of thirds, leading lines, back lighting, balance and becoming familiar with all

things Photography.

Photographic and Digital Media (PDM)

Opportunity to work collaboratively

Exploring the concept of projected portraits, creating engaging imagery

Research task on a chosen photographer

Photographic and Digital Media (PDM)

Building a strong class portfolio on Google classroom.

Exploring Photoshop to juxtapose themselves (portraits) into alien environments to create

humorous imagery. Some successful montages are coming together nicely!

Later in the term - Crime Scene Photography using a postmodern approach and reference Melanie Pullen’s High Fashion Crimes

Scenes.

Students will take four photographs recreating crime scenes.

Staged and dynamic imagery within the school.

Photographic and Digital Media (PDM)

Crime ScenesPeter Doyle with Caleb Williams “ City of Shadows” Photos from NSW

Police Forensic Photography Archive, Justice & Police Museum

Crime scene: Scientific Investigation Bureau Archives 1945-

1960

Scientific Investigation Bureau Archives: 1945-1960

Detectives once produced Crime Scene pictures with a style serving

both the legal and scientific needs of the force and their own

aesthetic interests. More often than not this resulted in intuitive and

artistic work.

Coming just after the descriptive conformities of the mug shot and

before the thorough regulation of forensic science, 1950s crime-

scene images have a special 'speculative' power. These police

photographers entered the Crime Scene, paid attention to its mood

and clues, and then imagined the best way to frame the mysteries in

a picture.

In the Crime Scene exhibition, the imaginative quality of the images

was intensified by the fact that these image-files have been severed

forever from the court-reports and the detectives' notes. Curators

Ross Gibson and Kate Richards said the challenge of these images

is that they can never tell a conclusive story, they can suggest but

they can never prove.

Justice & Police Museum

Unidentified corpse, partly obscured, lying in loading dock, location

unknown, but presumably inner Sydney, late1920s.

Bedroom, with bloodstained bed reflected in dressing table

mirror. Details unknown, late 1930s

Domestic interior, showing kitchen stove, kitchen shelves

and canisters. Details unknown. Late1930s

In the days when these photographs were taken, the details of home

life were not generally discussed in public, rarely written about, and

depicted – if at all – only in the most idealised ways. The front door of

the domestic dwelling presented an almost total barrier between the

public life of the street and the private life of the home. Many of the

photographs show cramped, grimy interiors of rooming houses and

flats. Greasy surfaces, unswept floors, bare walls, and empty bottles

on tables and bedroom dressers all suggest transient, borderline

lives. Other photographs, however, reveal well-kept interiors,

crowded with neatly ordered furniture, bric-a-brac and framed

pictures.

A deceased male wearing striped

pajamas is sprawled on his back

across the entrance stairs of a of a

bricked building.

The forensic photograph is a fragment

scissored from time; a powerful form of

evidence and an official document, but one

that is authored by an individual and

therefore marked by a personal vision.

Every crime scene photograph is also a

form of intrusion on private pain, justified

because the detective will use it later to

arrive at the truth of what happened.

Bedroom, with bloodstained bed

reflected in dressing table mirror.

Details unknown, late 1930s

Dead body, female, lying on living room

floor, late 1930s. Details unknown.

Interior, wardrobe with female corpse. Details unknown, late

1930s

Domestic interior, showing kitchen, sink, mugs and

utensils, inscribed "Hurlstone Park Murder 1074".

Dining room with blood spatters and signs of

struggle, scene of shooting murder of Alice

Isabella Anderson by Maurice Reuben John

Anderson, and the subsequent suicide of the

latter, at 75 Birrell St Waverley, NSW, 2 May

1944.

Bedroom, scene of shooting murder of Alice Isabella Anderson by Maurice

Reuben John Anderson, and the subsequent suicide of the latter, at 75

Birrell St Waverley, NSW, 2 May 1944.

Beer bottles and glasses on a table surrounded by chairs, some upturned.

Ziegfeld Club, King Street, Sydney

Body of a woman in a print dress lying on the floor in front of a Singer

treadle sewing machine. Probably late 1930s, early 1940s. Details

unknown.

The Death of Dr. Claude Tozer

Dorothy Mort

CAPA – Whole School Programs

Enrichment Programs

► Drama Ensemble – Friday lunch (working on vocal projection, facial expressions and improvisation techniques + script performance)

► Art Club – Wednesday lunch

MUSIC ENSEMBLES

► Monday lunch – String Ensemble and Flute Quartet

► Wednesday lunch - JAM Ensemble

► Thursday 7:30am – Concert Band

► Thursday lunch – Vocal Ensemble and Sax Quartet

► Friday lunch – Clarinet Ensemble

► Jazz Ensemble will recommence in Semester 2 following auditions late Term 2

CAPA – Upcoming Events

► 10th March – Vocal Ensemble rehearsal “In Concert” , Hunter Theatre, HSPA

► 23rd March - CAPA Ensembles Night, Bensley Hall MHS 6pm

► 8th April – Hunter “In Concert” (Vocal Ensemble, Concert Band and String Ensemble) at Newcastle City Hall

► Variety of dates in Terms 1and 2 for Star Struck Choir, Dance, Drama and Orchestra

► 7th August – POSH Concert (all MHS Music Ensembles and Yr 12 Music students) at Newcastle Conservatorium

► 12th August - CAPA Night – Exhibition of Artworks and Performances from Music and Drama students, Bensley Hall MHS 6pm

Regional Ensembles

► Hunter Wind Ensemble

Star Struck Orchestra

► Hunter Singers

► Newcastle Strings