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) 1 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 2 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 3 .