Music 5 Year curriculum onwards
Autumn Spring Summer Elements of Music, pitch, musical Musical Form Chords and triads Topic notation, rhythm, keyboard layout Instruments of the orchestra Binary, ternary and rondo form- Time signature simple time Elvis Presley –notation recall Composing pieces of music in the Right hand first hand position Singing Keyboard right hand with some Keyboard work 2 hands Left Skill music form Singing in 2 parts in unison movement of position hand 3 finger chords Notation, treble clef reading, note Orchestra layout, function and values, Rhythmic notation and note Theory behind major and minor historical development of the values The theory behind the musical forms, triads Knowledge instruments Simple time-time signatures Intervals 3rd Recap and introduce musical the sections and variations 2/4,3/4,4/4 Key signatures C major-A major periods, focusing on Romantic
Oranges and lemons, theory Love me Tender, musical form test and Theory low threat quiz, whiteboard, Assessment testsbase line test EastEnders and orchestral test 3 mini composition tasks multiple choice Basic reading of music and rhythm Musical elements-treble clef, stave, Binary, ternary, rondo, introduction, Vocabulary/key Vibrato, legato, staccato, arco, Intervals, semitones, octave, triad, unison Crotchet, minim, semibreve, composition, sonata form-listening tests words pizzicato, conduct chord, 3rds and 5th quaver, syncopation Popular Music- Blues Music/ Chords and Topic Rhythm recap 1-time signature African Music-rhythm recall Film Music/rondo form Fusion Music-GCSE link Britpop/structure (recap from triadskeyboard composition work) Discussion and debate Composition, performing, ensemble Learning the djembe, the 4 Improvisation Composition of AABA piece of techniques to play the djembe, skills Performing Music Research and presentation Performing and ensemble skills Skill ensemble skills-SMSC-respecting Rhythmic notation Singing in an ensemble other opinions Team Singing in 2 parts Creativity/imagination skills work Bass clef left hand chord playing Notation 2 Notation recap
Polyrhythms, context to African Key signatures, time signatures, Musical facts and features of Rhythmic notation and note values chords, major and minor, sounds, Britpop music Music, musical features of Africa Background/context and musical African and Irish musical Knowledge Time signatures-development to intervals, musical structures PP popular song structure compound time 6/8 9/8 12/8 Time signatures 2/4 3/4 4/4-recap features of Blues Music features and context Bass clef work Time signatures recap year 7 Key signatures and triads-recap Intervals Recap musical periods and Key signatures sharp family C
introduce 20th century Music major – E major
Cold Play Yellow and musical 12 bar blues performance and blues Project on Afro Celt Sound Assessment What shall we do, rhythmic listening Polyrhythmic composition and Changing Places and composition- features listening test System tests, notation assessment performance Texas Smith Drum assessment Composition of 12 bard Blues Intervals work-chopsticks Composition of popular song Improvisation, triads, syncopation, 7th Polyrhythm, syncopation, Bodhran, djembe, Riff, structure, bridge, middle 8, Vocabulary/key Crotchet, minim, semibreve, quaver, chords, extended chords, Atmosphere, chaotic, serene, improvisation, djembe, dunno, syncopation, modes, riff, introduction, verse, chorus words syncopation Listening tests Triads, diminished, analyse, evaluate Listening tests technology structure augmented, broken chords, Queen (GCSE link)-background Music in the 1950’s-Rock and to the band with core knowledge Topic Variation Form-Notation 3 Ground Bass Reggae Music Star Wars/Film Music Rollchord recap and skills of music technology
Listening and appraising, Reggae Music-Bob Marley essay question Musical Listening and appraising Rhythm syncopation elements Composition, Sibelius, listening Composition, listening and appraising, Analysis skills Background and context Underscore, diegetic music, Skill Composing and creativity bass clef and appraising, ensemble and performing and ensemble, Singing in unison Listening and appraising, key leitmotif solo skills presentation skills words, performing Singing in 3 part harmony
Musical features and detailed analysis of Star Wars Theory of the musical features of 1950’s Key musical features of Baroque musical features, variation Research on Pachabel the Musical features and detailed Flat key signatures rock and roll, chord and triad theory reggae, background and Knowledge techniques composer, musical features of analysis of various Queen pieces Fanfares and rhythm recap work context to reggae, Jamaica, Bass clef notation and pitch work Pachabel’s canon Key signatures flat key C-Ab major of Music life of Bob Marley
Extended written on the song Extended written on the Star Killer Queen Frere Jacque composition-notation Pachelbel’s Canon performance Rock around the clock, Rock and roll Can’t help falling in love by Wars Test on basic musical facts and skill and performance and composition Sibelius if keyboard piece, research famous UB40, Listening work on all Test on basic facts and musical Assessment features Sibelius if possible possible bands and singers reggae music features Listening tests Listening tests Listening Listening tests Context-Ska and rock steady
Baroque, variation, retrograde, inversion, melismatic, ornamented Analysis, anacrusis, flange, Bb major, fanfare, march style, Vocabulary/key Harmony, improvisation, Ska Ground bass Triad, improvisation distortion, pull offs, hammer ons, motives, heroic, positivity, words rock steady, syncopation EQ, vocalisation leitmotif, underscore
Area 1 Baroque and Bach’s Topic Area 1 Beethoven’s Pathetique Area 2 Purcell Music for a While Area 2 Killer Queen Area 3 Defying Gravity Area 3 Star Wars Brandenburg Concerto Instrumental Music Instrumental Music Vocal Music Vocal Music Music for film and stage Music for film and stage Content Listening and appraising, key words, Listening and appraising, key Listening and appraising, key words, Listening and appraising, key Listening and appraising, key Listening and appraising, key Skills performing words, performing and composing performing, composing words, performing words, performing words, performing Theory tests, performance solo 1 Theory tests, performance solo, Theory tests, performance solo, Theory tests, performance solo, Theory tests, performance Theory tests, performance Assessment Key signatures recap-introduce composition 1 composition 1 ensemble 1 composition 1 ensemble 1 solo, composition 1 solo 2 solo, composition 1 solo 2 minor keys Time signatures recap Intervals and chords recap Chromatic notes Sonata form, exposition, Ternary form, ground bass, syllabic, Leitmotif, motif, bitonal, Vocabulary (see ind Baroque, terraced, ornamented, recapitulation, development, Technology, distortion, muti-track, Leitmotifs, underscore, melismatic, word painting, dissonant homophonic, recitative, SOL more detail) fugue, sequence, contrapuntal Grave, diminished chords, anthemic, structure, overdubbing diegetic, cue, pedal, glissando Pathetique, murky bass, octaves, intervals polytonal
Area 4 Esperanza Spalding: Area 2-Deadline for Topic Area 4 Afro Celt Sound System GCSE practical performances Area 3 Area 4 Samba Em Preludio composition 1 and 2
Content World Music, SMSC, listening and World Music, SMSC, listening and Revision Area 1 and 2 Revision are 2 and 3 Revision all set works Revision all set works Skills appraising, performing appraising, performing
Theory tests, composition 2 set Assessment Theory tests, composition 2 set piece Past papers comp 2 Revision comps 2 Revision past papers Revision Past papers piece Bodhran, kora, ostinato, static Fusion, turnaround, clave, rubato, Vocabulary (see ind harmony, dorin and Aeolian mode, monophonic, contrapuntal, jazz SOL more detail) fusion harmony, extended chords