Pitch
(Theme: Musical Me)
Year 2 - Music - Summer 2
Year 2 - Music - Summer 2
Move their eyes from left to right to read pitch patterns
Sing high and low notes including the notes in between
Play a pattern of high and low notes on an instrument
Read notation from left to right
Draw high and low sounds using dots at the top and bottom of a page, respectively
Recognise when notes stay the same
Recognise missing notes on a stave
Key Knowledge
To know that:
Notation is read from left to right
In all pictorial representations of music, representations further up the page are higher sounds and those further down are lower sounds
Sounds within music can be described as high or low sounds and the meaning of these terms
dot
high
low
musical sentence
notation
phrase
pitch
pitch pattern
stave
In Year 1, children learnt about pitch in the unit entitled 'Pitch (Theme: Superheroes)'.
In Year 3, children will continue to use pitch in compositions throughout the units taught.