Year 7

Read Classic FM's Friendly Guide To Mozart by Darren Henley and Tim Lihoreau.

‘The Classic FM Friendly Guide to Mozart’ will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about this famous composer, who consistently has the most titles in the Classic FM ‘Hall of Fame’ (a yearly poll of the nation’s musical taste: 145,000 listeners took part in 2005). Was he really such a prodigy? Did his father exploit him? Was he murdered by rival Salieri? Why does Mozart’s music have ‘K’ numbers? While giving all the facts about ‘The Man’ and ‘The Music’, ‘The Classic FM Friendly Guide to Mozart’ includes lively and light-hearted features, quotes and anecdotes. This book is available in the school library for borrowing by all pupils. 

Choose one of the works featured in the BBC 10 pieces to listen to. Listen to this piece, research it and create a Google Slides presentation about it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/articles/zv2gqp3

Watch this video from Howard Goodall’s Story of Music series on the invention of music notation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3EzHGaKClk 

Amadeus (PG version) on Amazon Prime

Research the different orchestral musical instruments. 

Find out which instruments belong to which family and why. 

Can you explore the history of these instruments and find some interesting facts about how they are made?

Attend a concert at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Write a report as a critic. Comment on the music you heard in the concert and how it made you feel.

Museum of Liverpool’s section on the sounds that influenced Liverpool

Create your own composition on the theme of a character you have created. Try to notate this if you can, or produce a detailed write up which explains how your musical decisions reflect your character (e.g the tempo is fast because they are energetic!).

If you do not have access to an instrument, try one of these apps or websites on a phone or tablet device:

https://www.onlinepianist.com/virtual-piano
https://www.musicca.com/piano
https://virtualpiano.net/