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KS3 & KS4 music curriculum

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Year 8

Minor, major and developing keyboard skills

6 lessons

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  • Expressive elements
  • Instrumental fluency
  • Rhythm

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This unit introduces major and minor scales and explores what makes music distinctive and memorable. Pupils develop keyboard technique and rehearsal strateiges, learning more complex melodic lines with accidentals and varied articulation.

Pupils develop keyboard technique, becoming more fluent in moving out of position, playing the black keys, and playing longer, more complex melodic lines and broken chords. They develop their ability to perform expressively in more advanced keyboard music, including using rubato. They explore melodic techniques such as sequence and anacrusis and the importance of phrase structure. They start to understand the importanace of the third in defining keys and how scales work. They develop their own creative ideas using other music as inspiration, learning more about what makes a piece successful.

  1. Playing a melody with sharps
  2. Learning the middle section of Fur Elise
  3. Fur Elise reimagined
  4. Learning the accompaniment for Fur Elise
  5. Changing hand positions in the middle of a phrase
  6. Developing fluency in changing hand positions on the keyboard
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