The course comprises of Six 6 week lessons tailored for years 1 to 6. This will challenge pupils’ musical awareness from a compositional/performance perspective, dealing with listening skills, basic composition arrangement, vocal techniques and group performances.
Years 1-2 | Years 3-4 | Years 5-6
Focus on:
A -
Voices in layers
(ii)
- Develop harmonic awareness, singing in parts.
- Composing ideas.
- Relationship between drone, ostinato, and multi-part music.
B -
Controlling your voice
- Sing songs with accuracy of pitch.
- Develop melodic awareness.
- Composing with the voice.
C - Composition: pitch and time (ii)
- Invisible graphic score.
- Notation.
- Meter and beats in a bar.
D -
Composition: pitch and time (ii)
- Invisible graphic score.
- Notation.
- Meter and beats in a bar.
E -
Scales/
Harmony (i)
- Composing using simple scales C major and A minor.
F - Performance
Term
- A collection of Musical items Learnt through out the year*.