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by the end of Year 6 children will be able to
Listen and appraise: appreciate and understand a wide range of high quality, live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.
Musical activities: Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.
Perform and share: Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
History of Music: Develop an understanding of the history of music.
Inter-related dimensions of music: Pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, structure, texture
Autumn Term
Autumn Term
Autumn 1 - Baroque, Advanced rhythms
Autumn 1 - Baroque, Advanced rhythms
Montiverde and the invention of opera
To understand the importance of Montiverde in the history of opera
Johann Pachelbel and the canon
To read and play a canon from staff notation.
Henry Purcell and the ground bass
To demonstrate an understanding of Baroque music features when composing.
J S Bach and the Fugue
To combine knowledge of staff notation and aural awareness to play a fugue.
George Frideric Handel and the oratorio
To apply their understanding of fugue structure when performing with others.
Autumn 2 - Dynamics, Pitch & Texture (Fingal's Cave)
Autumn 2 - Dynamics, Pitch & Texture (Fingal's Cave)
Exploring Fingal's cave
To appraise the work of a classical composer (Felix Mendelssohn)
Making Waves: Pitch and Dynamics
To improvise as a group using dynamics and pitch.
Making waves: Texture
To improvise as a group using texture.
Group compositions
To use knowledge of dynamics, texture and pitch to create a group composition.
We are waves
To use teamwork to create s group composition featuring changes in texture, dynamics and pitch.
Spring Term
Spring Term
Spring 1 - Film Music
Spring 1 - Film Music
Soundtracks
To appraise different musical features in a variety of film contexts.
Scenes and sounds
To identify and understand some composing techniques in film music.
Following the score
To use graphic scores to interpret emotions in film music.
Composing for film
To create and notate musical ideas and relate them to film music.
The Soundtrack
To play a sequence of musical ideas to convey emotions.
Spring 2 - Theme and Variations (Pop Art)
Spring 2 - Theme and Variations (Pop Art)
Pop art and music
To explore the musical concept of theme and variations.
The Young Person's guide to the orchestra
To compare and contrast different variations in the piece 'The young persons guide to the orchestra'.
Learning the theme
To use complex rhythms to be able to perform a theme.
Exploring rhythms
To play TIKI-TIKI, TI-TIKI and TIKI-TI rhythms in 3/4 time.
Picturing Pop Art
To use music notation to create visual representations of TIKI-TIKI, TI-TIKI and TIKI-TI rhythms.
Summer Term
Summer Term
Summer 1 - Songs of WW2
Summer 1 - Songs of WW2
Singing for victory
To use musical vocabulary to identify features of different eras of music.
The White Cliffs of Dover
To improve accuracy of pitch and control, singing with expression and dynamics.
Pitch up
To identify pitches within an octave when singing.
Harmonise
To use knowledge of pitch to develop confidence when singing in parts.
Let's notateTo be able to notate a melody using pitches up an octave.
Summer 2 - Composing and Performing a Leavers Song
Summer 2 - Composing and Performing a Leavers Song
A single year
To listen and describe music.
Writing chorus lyrics
To write lyrics for a song.
Writing verse lyrics
To organise lyrics into a song structure.
Backing track
To use vocal improvisation and known melodies against a backing track.
Creating a melody
To compose a melody.
The final piece
To compose a verse melody.
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