Mandatory and elective topics: Australian music, music of the last 25 years, music 1900 to 1945, and music of a culture.
These are the statements the Music 2 syllabus makes about Australian Music and Music of a Culture. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Australian art, popular and Indigenous music, and what makes a body of work identifiably Australian.
Recent repertoire and the technologies, institutions and audiences that shaped it.
Modernism, new tonal systems and the social rupture the period's music registered.
A non-Western tradition studied in its own terms, with its musical features and cultural function.
The specific works studied for each topic, and the analytical knowledge the exam requires of them.
What changed between periods, and which works best evidence the change.
HSC Music 2 - Written Paper Shape is 60 marks in 120 minutes. Questions on Australian Music and Music of a Culture are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Music 2 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Australian Music and Music of a Culture is module 3 of 5 in Music 2. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Music 2 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.