Years 7 and 8 Music Overview

Term Year 7 Year 8 Find Your Voice Blues

Baseline Assessment Baseline Assessment 1. Theory and Listening test 1. Theory and Listening Test 2. Performance 2. Performance

DR P SMITH: RHYTHM DR P SMITH: MELODY & STRUCTURE

 Rhythm and note duration  Notation (treble and bass clefs)  Notation  Keyboard notes  Expression  Structure - 12 Bar Blues chords sequence

Autumn 1  Voice types  Walking bassline  Melody – repetition/riff/Blues scale Performing, Improvising and Singing  Improvisation / solo  Unison, harmony, a capella  Harmony - Blues chords incl. 7th extensions  Beatboxing, warm-ups  Shuffle beat  4 chord song – musical futures  Ensemble skills Performing and Singing  12 Bar Blues Keyboard Skills  Hit the Road Jack  In the Mood DR P SMITH: PITCH   Pitch and notation Improvising and Composing  Keyboard notes  Own Blues arrangement including score

 Accidentals  Lyrics  Dynamics (expression) Listening and Appraising Notation test  Work songs Autumn 2  Blues Performing and Singing  Rock N Roll  Progressive keyboard skills and pieces (solo and paired)  Christmas Carols (group and class)

Japanese Folk Music Film Music

DR P SMITH: MELODY DR P SMITH: HARMONY  Melody  Tonality - major/ minor  Dynamics (expression)  Harmony - chords: major, minor, diminished  Timbre/Instrumentation  Dissonance - tritone (tension)  Structure  Trill (melodic decoration)  Notation (pitch and rhythm)  Melody, mood  Leitmotifs Performing and Singing  Structure  Sakura; keyboard and vocals  Music spotting  Solo and ensembles skills

Spring 1 Performing Listening and Appraising  Letimotifs: Hedwig's Theme, Star Wars, Indiana  Traditional Japanese Folk Music Jones, Batman,  Keyboards, percussion Composing  Solo and ensemble skills  Solo or paired Japanese compositions incl. graphic score Composing  Composing to scene treatments  storyboarding

Pop songs Reggae

DR P SMITH: HARMONY DR P SMITH: RHYTHM  Harmony/chords  Rhythm – bubble rhythm, off-beat,  Call and Response, imitation syncopated, skank  Expression  Melody – hook, riffs  Structure  Harmony – simple chords

 Tempo Performing and Singing  Instrumentation/timbre  Solo and ensemble skills  Vocal and keyboard skills Performing and Singing

Spring 2  Chords and root notes  Solo and ensemble skills  Performance of 4-chord mash-up  One Love, No Woman No Cry, 3 Little Birds  Keyboard/bass guitar/percussion Listening and Appraising  Popular music Listening and Appraising  Instrument recognition  Buffalo Solider, You Can Get it if You Really Want, Wild World, No Woman No Cry

Classical Music Song Writing

DR P SMITH: MELODY, TEXTURE and TIMBRE DR P SMITH: MELODY and STRUCTURE  Melody (ostinato, ground bass)  Melody - Riffs and hooks  Texture (monophonic, polyphonic)  Ascending/descending, conjunct/disjunct  Instrumentation/timbre - orchestra  Song structures  Structure (Canon)  Pitch/rhythm  Notation (treble and bass clefs)  Dynamics  Chords, texture Performing and Singing  Solo/ensemble skills Performing and Singing  Pachelbel’s Canon in D  Solo/ensemble skills (keyboard/guitar)  Keyboard and singing skills  Altogether Now  Band instruments  Own arrangements  Shotgun, Shape of You, Faded

Composing Composing  Ostinato composition  Chord sequences  Writing lyrics Listening and Appraising  Song-structures  Peter and the Wolf (leitmotif)

 Orchestral Families Enrichment Week

1 & 2 Enrichment week End of Year Quiz (Listening)

End of Year Quiz (listening) Performing and Singing  End of Year Talent Show Summer Performing and singing  ICT Music  End of year talent show  Software Packages

Electronic Dance Music Additional scheme: DR P SMITH: TEXTURE and TIMBRE  Loop/ sample  Texture/ layers  Audio/ midi (tracks)  Synthesiser  Sequencer  Instrumentation/ timbre  Effects/ reverb/ delay

Composing  Multitrack composition

ICT Music Software  Reason  Sibelius  VIP studios