Year 3 Music
Music lessons in year 3...
By the end of Year 3 will
Listen and Appraise: Appreciate and understand a variety of musical styles from different times and traditions.
They will continue to recognise the sound of musical instruments and basic features of key musical styles.
2. Musical Activities: Learn to sing and use their voices to create and compose music on their own and with others.
Have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.
Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music.
3. Perform and share: Use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically.
Autumn Term
Autumn 1 - Ballads
What is a Ballad
To use musical vocabulary to explain the stylistic features of a ballad.
Performing a ballad
To explore how actions can impact performance.
The story behind the song
To plan a musical structure inspired by a story.
Writing lyrics
To create lyrics that match a melody.
Singing my ballad
To show awareness of style, structure and features to perform a ballad.
Autumn 2 - To combine and perform different versions of a musical motif. To take part in a group performance. Creating compositions (Mountains)
Telling stories through music
To tell a story from a piece of music through movement.
Creating a soundscape
To create a soundscape using percussion instruments.
Story sound effects
To create a range of sounds to accompany a story.
Adding rhythm
To compose and perform a rhythm to accompany a story.
Musical mountain
To compose and notate a short melody to accompany a story
Spring Term
Spring 1 - Pentatonic melodies and composition
Dragon Dance
To learn about the music used to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Pentatonic Scale
To play a pentatonic melody.
Letter Notation
To write and perform a pentatonic melody.
Enter the dragon
To perform a group composition.
Final performance
To perform a piece of music as part of a group.
Spring 2 - Jazz
Ragtime
To sing and clap a syncopated rhythm for a ragtime style song.
Traditional jazz
To improvise a call and response.
Scat singing
To be able to scat sing using the call and response format.
Jazz Motifs
To create a jazz motif.
Swung rhythms
To create a jazz motif.
Summer Term
Summer 1- Traditional instruments and improvisation (India)
Introducing traditional Indian music and instruments
To explain an opinion of Indian music.
Indian music: Playing a rag
To be able to improvise using given notes.
Indian music: Adding a drone
To be able to improvise using given notes.
Indian music: Adding a tal
To create a piece of music using a drone, rag and tal.
Indian Music: Performing Anile vaa
Summer 2 - To perform a piece of music using musical notationAdapting and transposing motifs (Romans)
Here come the Romans
To sing in tune and in time.
Musical Motifs
To understand what a musical motif is.
Motifs and mosaics
To compose and notate a motif.
Motif development
To develop and transpose a musical motif
Combine and perform
To combine and perform different versions of a musical motif