Topic Overview Music

Subject Leader – Belinda Ferrara and Emily Unwin Year Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 1 Singing: Singing: Singing: theme Singing: Singing: Singing: Seasonal theme – Winter songs Body Spring time Songs linked to Songs linked to Autumn Christmas songs Animals Easter songs places and Journeys stories and Weather Songs from Sing Up friendship fairytales. Holidays website Exploring Pitch instruments and Exploring sounds Pulse and rhythm symbols Timbre, tempo and Exploration dynamics Duration Listening: Listening: Vivaldi- Listening: Opera The Four Seasons Listening: Vivaldi The Four Songs that create Spring (Classical) Summer theme Listening: Seasons Autumn Listening: feelings and mood. (Modern popular) BBC Ten Pieces- BBC Ten pieces EG you raise me up In the summer time The Lark Ascending Finlandia Sibelius Catherine Jenkins Summer chill out (21st CENTURY) (21st century Nella music 1900’s)

2 Singing: Singing: Firework Katy Singing: Singing: Singing: Singing: Harvest festival songs. Perry Let's Play music project Songs from other Music inspired by Music inspired by Food London’s Burning and Music from other countries. journeys journeys cultures-Africa A keelie Makolay - Africa Exploring timbre, tempo Exploring sounds. Exploring pulse and Exploring pitch and dynamics. Exploring sounds rhythm Music from other cultures – Africa Listening:: Caribbean Listening: Listening: Listening: music and steel drums Listening: Handel- The Royal Tchaikovsky- Brahms Lullaby Exploring instruments (world music) Holst- Suite Firework Music Nutcracker (link to the Magical and symbols BBC Ten Pieces Vivaldi (link to space) (late (Baroque Era 1600’s) (1800) Land of Sleep) -The Four Seasons, 1800’s music) Music inspired by (Romantic era 1800’s) Listening: Summer (Baroque Music with a sea theme Bonfire Night/ Grieg- Hall of the African drumming 1600’s) Debussy La Mer Songs about London in Mountain King (world music) (stormy sea) the past Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals (Romantic era 1800’s music )

3 Make rhythms using To combine sounds to Sing songs and create Explore The Moldeau Carnival of the animals Use music apps to Stone Age phrases. create a mood or feeling accompaniments for and how the composer identify and compare compose a song. in a Stone Age story. year 3 performance. creates musical pictures. different elements in Singing: short extracts. Singing: Songs from Sing Up Singing: Listening: Singing: Songs from films Christmas songs Music linked to Year 3 Songs from Sing up Singing: including Disney songs Listening: performance. (Start introducing Songs with an animal Bach: Listening: singing in a round) theme Baroque 1600’s) BBC Ten Pieces No I went to the Animal Listening: place like Kerrie Listening: Fair Music for movies John Andrews Smetana La Vlatava A bear went over the Williams The Moldeau mountain Dancing with wolves. (late Romantic 1800’s) (modern

Listening: Saint Saens- Carnival of the Animals

4 Victorian street Creating a BBC Ten Pieces BBC Ten Pieces Let’s Play – Emil The history of Aztec cries Christmas carol and the Detectives music culture/drumming Singing: Singing: Listening: Listening: Songs from Oliver Songs from Oliver – Short A Bao A Qu – Listening: Christmas Ride in a Fast Mason Bates 1920’s music Listening: A christmas carol Machine Aztec drumming Listening: music Mendelssohn https://www.youtub Listening: e.com/watch?v=n3J Oliver (Musicals) C_9BbTm8 (world music) 5 Ancient Greek Create own Create a piece of Create a jingle for Create music for an Create music for a music – composing Christmas song for Anglo Saxon music. an advert for a animation showing holiday advert. and evaluating. Church sustainable shop. a plant growing. performance. Listening: Singing: well- Listening: Listening: Singing: Linked to Anglo saxon music. known jingles. Listening: Indian/Asian Music Greek Music church Music for the harp. Wagner- Ride of the (World Music) (World Music) performance. Valkyries (late Visit from Pinki Listening: 1800) Sharma) Compare to music Tubular Bells Link to dance and using the Lyre Listening: (21st Century) storytelling. instrument which Compare: was used in ancient Mozart Greece. Ed Sheeran Adele Chris Martin (classical and modern/pop music)

6 World unite Compare songs Composing Samba Listening: Garage band End of Year performance composed during music. Calm and composing and performance- WW2. meditation music. editing music- link rehearsals Singing: Buddhist Chants with secondary Songs from around Singing: Listening: school. Music extravaganza the world to Songs from war Samba (World BBC Ten Pieces – day- Redhill link. include: time Music) Carmina Burana by Singing: Scotland Carl Orff Pop songs Wales Ireland Listening: Run Rabbit Run Listening: We’ll meet again Modern Popular Listening: There’ll blue birds music World music listen over the white clifts Children to to and compare of Dover introduce Music music from that they enjoy contrasting cultures Visitor Beth listening to. Music of the Andes Berwick Lowe Panpipes Scottish bagpipes Pentatonic scales from the Far East