MUSIC Curriculum Map

Year Half Term 1 Half Term 2 Half Term 3 Half Term 4 Half Term 5 Half Term 6 Rhythms of the World Rhythms of the World Notation & Keyboard Notation & Keyboard Pictures at an Pictures at an Skills Skills Exhibition Exhibition/Singing Fundamentals of Students work towards a (Sonority/Timbre) Listening/appraisal rhythm/time signatures. final performance, Fundamentals of Composition assessment activities based around Looking at note values in incorporating rhythms and reading/writing notation. using Introduction to Instruments Holst's 'Planets'. more detail and how to ostinatos inspired by the Understanding notes on Musescore/Noteflight. in an Orchestra. Students incorporate the 7 create ostinatos. genres looked at the keyboard and the Paired work - students Homework project: Create elements of music to Introduction to different previously. basics of chords. prepare a short an original instrument to create short rhythms of the world, Layering, call and Be able to read/play composition including showcase to class. performances reflecting focussing on African response, unison etc. will simple pieces on chords and melody. Introduce elements of the mood of an image. drumming, Bhangra & stretch and challenge keyboard. music (Pitch, Dynamics, Students will finish by Samba. students. Tempo, Timbre). training their voices and How music can be applied working with harmony. to an image. Blues Blues Hooks & Riffs Hooks & Riffs Reggae & Syncopation Reggae & Syncopation (Decades of Music) (Decades of Music) Introduction to Blues Introduction to the walking Introduction to Reggae Write lyrics in a Reggae music and its historical and how it Developing understanding Students will create their and early style on the subject of significance. applies to the 12-bar of repeated patterns and own hook/riff with Jamaican/Carribean 'School'. Listening activities based structure. ostinatos. Students will accompaniment. This influences. Combine the elements of 8 on instruments used. Students rehearse for final listen/appraise music could either be harmonic Learn about strong and syncopated chords and Major chords and 12-bar performance in pairs, through the decades, or rhythmic. weak beats using chords - bassline using 'Three Little blues structure. combining the major learning to play different Students will prepare a apply to an existing song Birds' as an example. Students learn the lyrical chords and the walking hooks/riffs and how short performance, and of a different genre. Work towards an original structure of Blues and the bassline. repetition fits into popular should evaluate their Learn and play a typical group performance. content. Focus on keyboard skills music. contributions. Reggae bassline. and tempo/rhythm.

Film Music Rap & Hip-Hop Song Arrangement (Digital Audio Writing/Composition? Ensemble based project. Introduction to Musical Introduction to hip-hop and Workstations) (Link to Unit 4 BTEC) What makes a good Introduction to the Devices often used in film. its cultural influence. Introduction to music used Introduction to popular performance? evolution of game Analytical and descriptive Genre listening taks. primarily for dance. Brief song writing (Lyrical Students will be given soundtracks and effects. tasks relating to scenes of Students learn to apply focus on Waltz & March. content and sturctures) select popular songs in The unit explores different genres and mood rhyming schemes and Main focus on (7th and composition groups with lyrics and character themes and setting. incorporate 1/2 rhymes. chords, '4-on-the-floor') (instrumental music). different styles of notation their development for 9 Final group performance Introduction and practice and Club Dance music Develop understanding of (varying instruments). different atmospheres, the based on a cue sheet of a hip-hop bassline. (Drum loops, synth riff, sonority/timbre, and The students should creation of sound effects format, following a chosen Final group performances bass riff & vocal riff). create original music create a performance and a final composition horror scene. of original rap songs Students will then be based on a given brief. either the way it was piece using a focussing on a particular introduced to As freelance composers, recorded, or challenge title/character theme and theme. BandLab/Ableton, and they can choose to write a themselves and arrange it any accompanying effects. compose their own piece song for an upcoming differently (structure, style, of Dance music. artist, or create the score instrumentation). for a nature documentary.

Unit 1 / Unit 4: Unit 5 / Unit 2: Unit 1: The Music Unit 4:Introducing Music Unit 5: Introducing Unit 2: Promoting a 10 Introducing Music Promoting a Musical Industry Composition Music Performance Musical Product Composition Product