Music

Civil rights songs and the power of repetition

Sharing emotion through song

Sharing important issues through music and song

The importance and power of songs from the past

The differences of rap and beat poetry

Singing for the change we want to see in the world

Singing together: music that comments on social change

Theme and variation as a musical structure

Learning a musical theme

Composing a rhythmic variation to a theme

Composing a melodic variation to a theme

Composing a further variation to a theme

Practising and performing composed variations on a theme

In this unit, pupils will compose short variations on a given simple theme using glockenspiels or online keyboards on tablets or laptops. Exploring examples of theme and variations such as 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' will create an understanding of how this structure is formed.

Compose and Create: creating melodic variations based on a theme

To understand the difference between three and four time

To explore changes in metre

To explore compound time

To develop our understanding of compound time

To explore irregular metre

To develop our understanding of irregular metre

Metre

Understanding syncopation

To layer syncopated rhythms

To read syncopated rhythms

To compose a syncopated rhythm

To perform using syncopated rhythms

To summarise our learning of syncopation

Rhythm 4

Recognising melody

Constructing and playing a melody using a scale

Magical stories and tone poems

Melody and tonality

Spreading the news and telling a tale - the passing down of tunes in folk song

Renaissance and Baroque variations, opera arias and jazz scat - show off that melody!

Tonality

Binary form

Ternary form

Sonata form

Sonata and rondo form

Rondo form

Musical structures recap

Structure

Exploring recitative and arias

Introducing Gamelan - a review of polyrhythms

Gamelan - interlocking melodies

Composing a gamelan ensemble piece

Pulse and rhythm - Ghanaian rock game

Graphical notation and Djembe rhythms

Putting it all together - interlocking melodies, polyrhythms and structuring scores.

Beat, pulse, rhythm, structure

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