KS3 Music

Pupils should 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 interrelated 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