Music
AIMS
All pupils will:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
- learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations
SUBJECT CONTENT
Pupils will be taught to:
- play and perform confidently in a range of solo and ensemble contexts using their voice, playing instruments musically, fluently and with accuracy and expression
- improvise and compose; and extend and develop musical ideas by drawing on a range of musical structures, styles, genres and traditions
- use staff and other relevant notations appropriately and accurately in a range of musical styles, genres and traditions
- identify and use the inter-related dimensions of music expressively and with increasing sophistication, including use of tonalities, different types of scales and other musical devices
- listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of music from great composers and musicians
- develop a deepening understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history
PROGRAMME OF STUDY
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Year 7 |
Year 7 Concert |
Rhythm, Pulse and Ostinato (Rhythm & Metre) |
African Drumming (Rhythm & Metre/Texture) |
Pitch & Keyboard (Notation, Pitch & Melody) |
Music Technology (Dynamics, structure & Timbre) |
Programme Music (Instrumentation/ Harmony & Tonality) |
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Year 8 |
Reggae |
12 Bar Blues/Jazz |
Musicals (Year 8 Concert) |
Samba |
Music for Film |
Theme/ |
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Year 9 |
Performance/History of Music /Music Theory |
Songwriting/Composition/ |
Final Project/Music Theory |
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