Year 4

Year 4 Music

Singing

• Singing in harmony (developing 2-part)

• Singing in counterpoint (developing 2-part)

• Building upon skills developed in Year 4

Foundation concepts

• Extending Year 3 grounding in diatonic major scale (singing, playing and composing)

• Identifying major and minor tonality / chords

• Identifying tempo, texture, tessitura, dynamics

• Identifying rhythmic patterns and appying them practically

Composition

• Orff Schulwerk:  Improvisations based on rhythms of speech, repeated patterns and variations.

• Creating group compositions upon chord sequences and playing them in a small ensemble

Listening topics - identifying themes and orchestrations

• Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) 

• Introduction to Opera (major works and composers, e.g. Verdi, Rossini, Mozart, Bizet)