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