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Music lessons in year 4...
By the end of Year 4 children will be able to
Listen and Appraise: Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music from different traditions and from great musicians and composers.
Develop an understanding of the History of music.
2. Musical activities: Use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically.
Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high quality live and recorded music.
Experiment with, create , select and combine sounds using their inter-related dimensions of 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 Term
Autumn 1 - Body and tuned percussion (Rainforests)
Autumn 1 - Body and tuned percussion (Rainforests)
Pitter Patter raindrops
To identify structure and texture in music.
Rainforest Body Percussion
To use body percussion.
The rhythm of the forest floor
To create musical rhythms using body percussion.
The loopy rainforest
To create simple tunes.
Sounds of the rainforest
To build and improve a composition.
Autumn 2 - Reading the stave
Autumn 2 - Reading the stave
Notes on the stave
To recognise notes C to G on the stave.
Reading the stave
To play short phrases by reading notes on the stave.
What is a motif?
To recognise how pitch is used for effect in motifs
Composing a motif
To notate pitch accurately on a stave.
Performing a motif
To read notation accurately to play a motif
Spring Term
Spring Term
Spring 1 - Sounds of China: Scales and Structures
Spring 1 - Sounds of China: Scales and Structures
Dragon dance music
To explore how music is used in the dragon dance tradition
Pentatonic melodies
To explore and play melodies using the pentatonic scale.
Composing Pentatonic melodies
To compose a pentatonic melody to tell different parts of a dragon story.
Rhythms of the dragon
To create and loop rhythmic patterns
Dragon dance composition
To compose and perform music for a dragon dance story
Spring 2 Music Tecnology: Loop based composition
Spring 2 Music Tecnology: Loop based composition
Summer Term
Summer Term
Summer 1 - Samba and carnival sounds and instruments
Summer 1 - Samba and carnival sounds and instruments
Introduction to Samba
To recognise and identify the main features of Samba music.
Pulse and rhythm
To understand and play syncopated rhythms.
Samba rhythms
To play syncopated rhythms as part of a group.
Composing a break
To compose a basic rhythm break.
Samba performance
To perform rhythm breaks within the samba piece.
Summer 2 - Rock and Roll
Summer 2 - Rock and Roll
Hand Jive
To understand the history of rock and roll music.
Rock around the clock
To be able to perform with a sense of style.
Walking bass line
To play a walking bass line on tuned percussion.
Performing the bass
To be able to play a rock and roll bass line
Rock and Roll bass performance
To be able to play a Rock and Roll piece of music
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