Chapter Graphic : Music In Style
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  Level: Year 4 and year 8
Approach: Station 
Focus: Identifying whether musical extracts would be classified as jazz, classical, country, rap, rock or folk music.
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Resources: Computer program on laptop computer.
Questions / instructions:
This activity is done on the computer.
1. Click on the button that says Music In Style to begin the task.
The computer will then tell you what to do. If it doesn't, tell the teacher.

Students were asked to listen to musical extracts and classify them as jazz, classical, country, rap, rock, or folk music. They responded by clicking the button with the appropriate label.

This task contains music samples (see answers)
     
% responses
y4
y8
example
   
1.
49
91
2.
53
83
3.
36
66
4.
49
86
5.
27
57
6.
53
85
7.
55
92
8.
52
83
9.
59
80
10.
57
75
11.
27
46
Total score:
11
1
17
 
9–10
9
39
7–8
23
26
5–6
24
14
3–4
28
3
0–2
15
1
Commentary:
About 40 percent more year 8 than year 4 students succeeded well with this task. Jazz and Folk were the least successful categories.
 
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