The Course and Exam Board Students Follow

Music Department Curriculum Share

Year 9

The course and exam board students follow:

AQA GCSE Music

Useful course materials / revision guides / study aids to support your child at home:

GCSE Music AQA (grades 9-1) Complete Revision & Practice

Ensuring that your child attends their instrument lesson and practises at home (where possible)

List of resources in the academy available to borrow from our Library:

GCSE Music Study guides GCSE music revision guides

Students are assessed by:

A Listening exam 1 hour 30 min

2 compositions 1 free, 1 to a set brief (area of study selected by the exam board)

2 performances

A ensemble performance. A solo performance.

Practical and theoretical elements

Unit 1 is a 1 hour listening exam on 5 areas of study: Rhythm & Metre, Harmony & Tonality, Texture & Melody, Timbre & Dynamics and Structure & Form

Component 1 Understanding Music: 1 hour 30 minutes listening paper of unfamiliar music and study pieces.

Component 2 performance: 2 performances 1 solo piece and 1 ensemble piece.

Component 3 Composition: 2 compositions 1 free composition, 1 composition to a set brief.

Homework help and advice available from:

Instrument practice is vital for this course recommended 30min every other day.

Mr Asher in Music

Useful apps and website to support this stage of learning:

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ gcse /music My child is struggling – what can I do?

They can book in a rehearsal session with Mr Asher, speak to their instrument teacher for extra support and collect revision/practice papers from Music.

My child loves this subject – what else can they do?

Music clubs are ran on almost every lunch. Getting involved in the school band or playing different instruments can also broaden their skill. There are also lots of local music groups and bands that learners can join. Please ask your music teacher for more information.

The Music team recommend going to see/do:

CLASSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA 1ST OCTOBER 2016 THE BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER HALLÉ YOUTH ORCHESTRA 17TH DECEMBER 2016 THE BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER

Half –Term planner 2017-18

Sept-Oct Oct-Dec

Topics and texts Key Vocabulary: Topics and texts Key Vocabulary: studied: Rhythm, Metre, studied: Harmony, Tonality, Intervals, Octave, Composition; song texture, Melody, Composition; song Conjunct melody, writing Timbre, Dynamics, writing Disjunct melody, structure, Form, Triadic, Broken Theory; The Basics Theory; The Basics Tempo, Timing, Chords, Scalic, Writing Key Projection, arpeggio, acciaccaturas, Music Expression. Scales and Chords ostinato, Riff, Improvisation.

Ensemble skills/Band Solo Performance skills

Activities and ways to help at home: Activities and ways to help at home:

Use BBC bitesize website to support learners Encourage students to practice their instrument with listening practice. 30 min every other day. Encourage students to practice their instrument 30 min every other day. Use BBC bitesize website to support learners with listening practice. Download the set work the clock to listen to.

Encourage students to listen to a wide range of musical styles classical music (BBC Radio 3) ask them to try to describe the tempo, dynamics and texture.

Jan-Feb Feb-Mar Topics and texts Key Vocabulary: Topics and texts Key Vocabulary: studied: studied: Polyphonic, Crescendo, Composition, Homophonic, Composition, Diminuendo, Sibelius, chords and monophonic, Sibelius, chords and Imitation, cadence, melody Polyrhythm, melody chromatic, syncopation, drone, instrumental Solo Performance major, minor, atonal. Ensemble techniques Baroque music, performance - Live (Pizzicato, tremolo) Traditional music acapella. lounge African, Samba, music of the Theory; Instruments Caribbean of the Orchestra

Music Technology

Encourage students to practice their instrument Use BBC bitesize website to support learners 30 min every other day. Listen to them perform with listening practice. give them positive feedback on how you thought it sounded.

Use BBC bitesize website to support learners Listen to a range of different styles help them with listening practice. identify the elements of music get them to describe what they can hear. Tempo, Encourage students to listen to a wide range of instruments, dynamics, texture, tonality, (major, musical styles classical music (BBC Radio 3) Minor) structure. ask them to try to describe the Timbre, Texture, Dynamics and tempo.

Apr-May Jun-July Topics and texts Key Vocabulary: Topics and texts Key Vocabulary: studied: studied: Rhythm, Metre, Structure: binary, Harmony, Tonality, Composition 1 ternary, call & Solo performance & texture, Melody, submission this half response, phrasing, ensemble Timbre, Dynamics, term. articulation. performance structure, Form, recording submission Tempo. Ensemble performance - Live Theory; Indian Music, lounge Chamber Music

Theory; Film and Game Music

Use BBC bitesize website to support learners Use BBC bitesize website to support learners with listening practice. with listening practice.

Listen to a range of different styles help them Listen to a range of different styles help them identify the elements of music get them to identify the elements of music get them to describe what they can hear. Tempo, describe what they can hear. Tempo, instruments, dynamics, texture, tonality, (major, instruments, dynamics, texture, tonality, (major, Minor) structure. Minor) structure.