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Key Stage 3
Year 7
Unit 1: Stomp
L1 - Time Signatures, Crotchets and Quavers
L2 - Semibreves and Minims
L3 - Rests and Polyrhythms
L4 - Improvising Rhythmic Patterns
L5 - Syncopation: Moving from body to objects
L6 - Rehearsing Stomp Performances
L7 - Notating Rhythms and Assessment
L8 - Listening and Evaluating
Unit 2: Finding Your Voice
Unit 3: Power of Pentatonic
L1 - The Pentatonic Scale
L2 - Amazing Grace (Phrase 1 and 2)
L3 - Improvising Melodies
L4 - Q + A Phrases (Part 1)
L5 - Q + A Phrases (Part 2)
L6 - The Final Practice
L7 - Notating Your Composition
L8 - Recapping Amazing Grace
L9 - Final Performance and Evaluation
Unit 4: Playing in a Band
L1 - Triads & E minor Chord
L2 - Degrees of the scale & G Major Chord
L3 - Primary Triads & C Major Chord
L4 - Secondary Triads & A Minor Chord
L5 - Semitones, Tones & Pop Songs
L6 - Ensemble Rehearsal
L7 - Tonic, Dominant & Performing Task 1
L8 - Inversions & Composing Chord Sequences
L9 - Playing Inversions & Ensemble Rehearsal
L10 - Performing Task 2
Year 8
Unit 5: Beauty of Baroque
L1 - Ground bass
L2 - Melodies 1 and 2
L3 - Melodies 3 and 4
L4 - Playing in canon
L5 + L6 - Canon in an ensemble
L7 + L8 - Composing a melody
L9 - Creating your canon
Unit 6: A capella
L1 - Four Chord Trick
L2 - Rhythm Section
L3 - The Bassline
L4 - Passing Notes and Solos
L5 - A capella Performances
Unit 7: Djembe
L1 - The Djembe
L2 - Call and Response
L3 - Polyrhythms
L4 - Djembe Performance
L5 - Composing Signal and Response
L6 - Composing Call and Response
L7 - Composing Polyrhythms
L8 - Performing Compositions
Unit 8: Playing in a Band - Part 2
L1 - Uptown Funk
L2 - The Brass Riff
L3 - The Bass Line
L4 - Putting the chorus together
L5 - Performing the chorus
L6 - 1st Verse and Pre Chorus
L7 - The Introduction
L8 - The Bridge
L9 - Putting it all together
Year 9
Indian Classical Music
L1 - Intro to Indian Classical Music
L2 - Ragas
L3 - Drones
L4 - Tala
L5 + L6 - Composing Indian Classical Music
L7 - Evaluating Indian Classical Music
Music Technology
The Blues
Video Game Music
Preparing For GCSE
GCSE
Key Terms
Terms and signs
Musical structures
Voices and instruments
Historical periods
Set Works
Instrumental Music 1700-1820
J S Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.5
L1 - About Barqoue and The Brandenburg Concerto
L2 - Features of Brandenburg
L3 - Melody and Structure
Beethoven: Pathetique
L1 - Background
L2 - The Introduction
L3 - Structure
L4 - Exposition
L5 - Development
L6 - Recapitulation and Coda
Recommended Listening
Vocal Music
Purcell: Music For A While
L1 - About Music For A While
L2 - The Introduction
L3 - The Accompaniment
L4 - The A Section
L5 - B section and Return To A Section
Queen: Killer Queen
Lyrics
L1 - About Killer Queen
L2 - Taking It Apart
L3 - Melody and Rhythm
L4 - Music Technology and Instruments
Recommended Listening
Music for Stage and Screen
Wicked: Defying Gravity
Liberetto
L1 - About Defying Gravity
L2 - Taking it apart
L3 - Intro and Verse 1
L4 - Chorus and Bridge
L5 - Coda
John Williams: Star Wars
L1 - The Fanfare
L2 - Luke Skywalker's Theme
L3 - B Theme
L4 - Wave 4 and 5
Recommended Listening
Fusions
Afro Celt Sound System: Release
L1 - About and Analysis of Intro, Verse and Break
L2 - Analysis from verse 2 onwards
Esperanza: Samba Em Preludio
L1 - About Samba Em Preludio
L2 - Harmony
L3 - Melody and Rhythm
L4 - Texture and Instrumentation
Recommended Listening
Performing
Preparing For Your Performance
Song Difficulty List
Solo and Ensemble
Performance via Technology
Exemplar Performances
Composing
Free Composition
Composition To A Brief
Exemplar Compositions
Marking Grids
Listening and Analysing
12 Mark Questions
Knowledge Organisers
Core Concepts
Thinking of A level?
A Level Music
Knowledge Organisers
Music
L5 - Performing the chorus
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