Key Stage 4
Year 10
Intent
Students will develop their listening, appraising, composing and performing skills by understanding how to identify and explain the elements of music, exploring their own opinions within different genres of music and understanding how to perform and compose with a purpose.
Learning Journey
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Recap on how to read notation
- Circle of fifths and scales
- DRSMITTTH names
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
- Time Signature
- Key Signature
- Major
- Minor and Pentatonic scales
- Circle of Fifths
- Intervals and Cadences
- Exam command words:
- State, give, name, identify, list
- Complete
- Describe
- Explain
- Compare
- Analyse
-
Evaluate
Composition/Performance
- Introduction to Sibelius - Samba project
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Recap of Film Music History
- John Williams and Star Wars Story
- Star Wars Elements of Music
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
- Film Music
- Leitmotifs
- Diegetic
- Fanfares
- Syncopation
- Ostinato
- Arpeggios
- Synthesisers
- Free Tempo
- Ritardando
- Modulation
- Dissonance
- Quartal Harmony
Composition/Performance
- Set brief practice
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Recap on musicals history
- Stephen Schwartz and Wicked Story
- Defying Gravity Elements of Music
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Language
- Musicals
- Act
- Sforzando
- Syncopation
- Dotted Rhythms
- Triplets
- Syllabic
- Conjunct
- Leaps
- Tempo changes
- Monophonic
- Melody-Dominated Homophony
- Modulation
- Root position chords
- Dissonance
Composition/Performance
- Set Brief practice
- Mock Solo Performance
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Western Classical Music Periods and characteristics
- Bach and Baroque focus
- Brandenburg Concerto Elements of Music
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
- Baroque
- Terraced Dynamics
- Harpsichord
- Sequences
- Pedals
- Suspensions
- Ornaments
- Basso Continuo
- Ternary
- Dotted Rhythms
- Polyphonic
- Contrapuntal
- Ripieno
- Concertino
- Modulation
- Dominant Key
- Relative Minor
Composition/Performance
- Free Brief Coursework Planning
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Beethoven
- Recap of Classical and Romantic Periods
- Pathetique Sonata Elements of Music
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
- Classical
- Romantic
- Dissonance
- Chromaticism
- Diatonic
- Sonata Form
- Exposition
- Development
- Recapitulation
- Homophonic
- Monophonic
- Grave
- Allegro di Molto e con brio
- Perfect cadences
- Diminished sevenths
Composition/Performance
- Free Brief Coursework completion
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Popular Music History
- Queen history and characteristics of the band
- Killer Queen Elements of Music
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
- Glam Rock
- Swung feel
- Anacrusis
- Syncopation
- Triplets
- Syllabic
- Tenor
- Honkytonk
- Overdubbed
- Multi-tracking
- EQ
- Flanger
- Distortion
- Reverb
- Wah-Wah
- Panning
- Homophonic
- Imitation
- Modulation
- Dissonance
- Seventh Chords
- Altered and Extended Chords
Composition/Performance
- Free Brief Coursework submission
- Mock Ensemble Performance
Year 11
Intent
Students will continue to develop their listening, appraising, composing and performing skills by understanding how to identify and explain the elements of music, exploring their own opinions within different genres of music and understanding how to perform and compose with a purpose.
Learning Journey
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Vocal Music
- Purcell and Baroque recap
- Music for a While Elements of Music
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
- Soprano
- Alto
- Tenor
- Bass
- Baroque
- Dotted rhythms
- Syncopation
- Ground Bass
- Figured Bass
- Conjunct
- Ornamentation
- Syllabic
- Melisma
- Word Painting
- Melody-dominated Homophony
- Counterpoint
- Chromatic
- Modulation
- Cadences
Composition/ Performance
- Free brief coursework - final draft
- Set brief coursework planning
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Fusion music
- African Music and Celtic Music
- Afro Celt Sound System History and Fusion characteristics
- Release Elements of Music
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
- Fusion
- Free Metre
- Syncopation
- Triplets
- Sextuplets
- Ostinatos
- Syllabic
- Improvisation
- Ornamentation
- Kora
- Uilleann Pipes
- Bodhran
- Looping
- Glissando
- Double Stopping
- Homophonic
- Diatonic
- Modal
- Extended Chords
- Drone
Composition/Performance
- Set brief coursework completion
- Solo Performance Recording
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Jazz Music and Samba Music
- Bossa Nova Characteristics
- Esperanza Spalding and Fusion characteristics
- Samba Em Preludio Elements of Music
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
- Bossa Nova
- Syllabic
- Improvising
- Melismatic
- Extended Chords
- Sevenths
- Free Tempo
- Tempo Rubato
- Monophonic
- Chordal
- Dissonance
- Altered Chords
Composition/ Performance
- Set brief coursework submission
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Exam Question practice
- Recapping key words and definitions from all the set works
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
- All key words from previous set works
Composition/Performance
- Set brief coursework - final draft
- Ensemble Performance recording
Core Knowledge and Skills
Exam Question practice
Recapping key words and definitions from all the set works
Enriched Knowledge
- Music notation and reading music from treble, bass and alto clef
- Presentation and oracy skills
- Literacy – how to answer exam style questions
- World Music – studying music from different countries
- Music industry and job progression
Key Vocabulary
-
All key words from previous set works
Music News
- A-Z Music Tasks
Y7 and Y8 have been challenged with completing a full alphabet of Music Tasks! (02/07/2020) - Big Sing 2020!
Pupils have made their song choices for the Big Sing! (12/02/2020) - Christmas Cabaret
We are excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for our Christmas Cabaret (20/11/2019) - The Wizard of Oz
Tickets will soon be on sale (07/05/2019) - This half term in Music
What are pupils learning in Music this half term? (05/10/2018)