Year 5

Year 5 Music

Singing

• Singing in harmony (introducing 3-part)

• Singing in counterpoint (introducing 3-part)

• Building upon skills developed in Year 4

Foundation concepts

• Extending Year 4 grounding in diatonic major scale (singing, playing and composing)

• Identifying major, minor, augmented and diminished chords

• Identifying polyphonic and homophonic textures

• Identifying rhythmic patterns and transcribing them aurally

Composition

• Orff Schulwerk:  Group improvisations using drones, ostinati and modes

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

• Scoring compositions using Flat software

Listening topics - identifying themes and orchestrations

• Bolero (Ravel) 

• The Planets (Holst)

• World Music (West Africa, India, The Pacific - compositional devices and instruments)