Genre

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Warm-up questions
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES & SUCCESS CRITERIA
Develop an understanding of form & structure and genre

Categorise music according to its characteristics

Explore the form & structure stereotypes of different genres

Genre
 Genre Differences
Genres have specific characteristics which define them.
Those characteristics are how we decide if a piece of
music belongs in a certain genre or not.

Often there is overlap between genres and an argument

can be made for a song to belong to multiple genres –
it’s up to you as the audience to decide where you think
a piece most appropriately fits.

We can also go the other way and use those characteristics

to inform our composition (music writing) – if we know
what makes a jazz song, then we can include those
things to make sure our composition is actually a jazz
piece
 In your table groups,

• summarise the information about genre-specific form

& structure (on the OneNote page)

• fill out the Form & Structure worksheet in the

Collaboration space
1. Open our Music OneNote (if you don’t have your device you need to look on with
someone else)

Content Library > Term 2 > 7.1 Genre Characteristics

2. Read through the page of information for each genre

3. Fill in the boxes of your Genre in the Collaboration Space

4. Find three examples of each genre and add it to your table

 Each genre has its own
characteristics

Identify which genre each of

the following musical
examples belongs to

justify your choice

 What is form & Structure?

Read through the information in the OneNote page and

summarise what Form & structure means into your
glossary
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES & SUCCESS CRITERIA
Develop an understanding of form & structure

Categorise music according to its characteristics

Explore the form & structure stereotypes of different genres