Core Knowledge and Skills

• The definitions of the element of music and how to recognise this when listening to Music.
• Identify instruments when listening and understand the difference between them.
• Graphic scores and developing composition skills

Enriched Knowledge

• The benefits music has on our physical and mental health.
• Understanding what sound is and how it is made.
• Understanding how we connect to music and our individual interests
• Developing and speaking confidently about musical opinions

Key Vocabulary

• Dynamics
• Rhythm
• Structure
• Melody
• Instrumentation
• Tempo
• Texture
• Tonality
• Harmony
• Sound Waves
• Frequency
• Graphic Score
• Composition

Core Knowledge and Skills

• African Music History
• Use of box notation when constructing rhythm and understanding note values
• Use of rhythmic devices
• Performance skills
• African Music History
• Use of box notation when constructing rhythm and understanding note values
• Use of rhythmic devices
• Performance skills

Enriched Knowledge

• Understanding how African and Reggae music have impacted Western pop music.  
• Introduction to Fusion Music and why this relates to African Music.

Key Vocabulary

• Oral Tradition
• Layered Rhythms
• Call and Response
• Question and Answer
• Improvisation
• Ostinato
• Djembe

Core Knowledge and Skills

• How to use the keyboard
• Staff notation – treble and bass clef.
• Introduction to Chords
• Correct positioning on a keyboard
• Performance skills

Enriched Knowledge

• The invention and use of keyboard instruments.  
• Virtuosic playing e.g. Chopin, Liszt

Key Vocabulary

• Treble Clef
• Bass Clef
• Octave
• Contrary Motion
• Middle C
• Scale
• Major
• Minor
• Sharp
• Flat

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Reggae History
• How to recognise and identify pitch.
• How to make a chord and bassline from scale
• Performance skills

Enriched Knowledge

• Rastafarianism and how this impacted the lyrics of Reggae music.    
• Reggae music from the UK – Windrush

Key Vocabulary

• Mento
• Rocksteady
• Ska
• Syncopation
• Rastafarianism
• Pitch
• Chords
• Riff
• Bassline

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Chord sequences (I, V, VI, IV)
• How to arrange melody and accompaniment
• Song structure – verse and chorus.
• Composition Skills

Enriched Knowledge

• Ukulele origins and use in Popular culture
• Songwriting industry and the music business
• Lyrics and Poetry

Key Vocabulary

• Chord Sequence
• Verse
• Chorus
• Lyrics
• Accompaniment
• Melody
• Structure
• Ukulele
• Composition

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Film music history
• The importance of writing for emotion and how timing can aid this
• Leitmotifs, Diegetic and Non-Diegetic sounds
• Composing for different scenarios.

Enriched Knowledge

• How different elements of music are important to connect people to media
• Use of composition software
• Experience of different ensembles performing media music
• Foley Artists

Key Vocabulary

• Leitmotifs
• Diegetic
• Non-Diegetic
• Mickey-Mousing
• Chromaticism
• Sound Effects

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Blues music history
• Lyric structure and melody
• 12 Bar Blues and walking bass line – treble and bass clef
• Blues scale and improvisation
• Performance skills

Enriched Knowledge

• How blues music connects to other areas of music – Jazz, Swing, Rock and Roll.  
• The transatlantic slave trade

Key Vocabulary

• Slave Trade
• Work Songs
• 12 Bar Blues
• Blues Scale
• AAB
• Improvisation

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Samba history
• The use of texture in Samba music
• Samba instruments and each instrument’s role in a Samba band
• Samba structure and breaks
• How to lead a Samba band
• Performance skills

Enriched Knowledge

• Events that Samba has been shown – Rio Olympics, World Cup 2014
• Samba in Nottingham – Nottingham School of Samba

Key Vocabulary

• Monophony
• Homophony
• Polyphony
• Heterophony
• Polyrhythmic
• Structure
• Texture
• Breaks
• Surdo
• Caixa
• Repinique
• Agogo Bell
• Tambourim
• Ganza
• Clave

Core Knowledge and Skills

• British Music before 1900
• British ‘Pop’ Music from 1900-2019
• How music has changed over time following events in Britain
• Performance skills

Enriched Knowledge

• Opera/Classical music in Britain.  
• The meaning of ‘Pop’ in Culture.  
• How music technology has developed through time.

Key Vocabulary

• Genres
• Skiffle
• Beat Music
• British Blues
• Folk
• Punk
• Synth
• House
• Metal
• Hip-hop
• Soul
• Britpop
• Garage
• Grime

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Recap of Song Structure
• How to write song lyrics
• Major and Minor Scales
• How to use Garageband
• Composition skills

Key Vocabulary

• Bridge
• Middle 8
• Major
• Minor
• Tonic
• Dominant
• Subdominant
• Garageband
• Loops
• Automation

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Game music history
• Composing a motif for a character
• Use of melody in Game – conjunct, disjunct, chromatic
• Composing for different scenarios

Enriched Knowledge

• Excessive gaming – how to monitor game use
• Science of Game Technology
• How music can link to emotions

Key Vocabulary

• 8-Bit
• Chiptune
• Chromaticism
• Syncopation
• Ground Theme
• Motif
• Conjunct
• Disjunct

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Indian Classical Music and Instruments
• Structure – Alap, Gat, Jhalla
• Raga and Tala
• Performance skills

Enriched Knowledge

• Influence on Western music
• Raga connected to mood/time of day/seasons

Key Vocabulary

• Raga
• Drone
• Tala
• Alap
• Gat
• Jhalla
• Bhangra
• Sitar
• Tabla
• Dhol
• Harmonium

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Dance music over time
• Time signatures  
• Chord sequences
• Composition skills

Enriched Knowledge

• Dance used in society
• Personal and cultural expression

Key Vocabulary

• March, Waltz
• Tango
• Gigue
• American Line
• Irish Jig and Reel
• Disco
• Club
• 2/4
• 3/4
• 4/4
• Chord Sequences

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Musicals history
• The use of costumes, staging and lighting to put on a performance
• Types of songs used in a musical
• Voice types and lyric setting
• Performance Skills

Enriched Knowledge

• Opera vs Musicals
• Links to Drama – costumes, staging, lighting etc

Key Vocabulary

• Chorus
• Ensemble
• Duet
• Solo
• Spotlight
• Syllabic
• Melisma
• Soprano
• Alto
• Tenor
• Bass
• Falsetto
• Vocables

Core Knowledge and Skill

• What makes a good performance?
• Music industry
• How to change styles of music - covers
• Performance Skills

Enriched Knowledge

• Seeing live music – tickets sales
• Music industry careers
• Critique of performances

Key Vocabulary

• Live
• Confidence
• Teamwork
• Ensemble
• Acoustic
• Covers
• Journalism
• Critic