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Year 7

Orchestral melodies

6 lessons

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  • Expressive elements
  • Instrumental fluency
  • Melody

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This unit develops knowledge and understanding of the instruments of the orchestra. Pupils also learn to play a famous orchestral melody on the keyboard, learning to play and move out of position and they learn to identify from C to octave C on the stave through performance.

Pupils continue to develop their performance and rehearsal skills and continue to develop keyboard fluency, learning to play out of position and across the whole C scale. They consolodate their skills of performing with both hands with a rhythmically simple left hand part and of using notation (crotchets, minims, semibreves and dotted rhythms) in performance. They extend their understanding of expressive elements, including how they can use emphasis, dynamics and tempo. They develop their listening skills, learning how the main orchestral instruments work, their main roles and their timbre.

  1. The string family and the woodwind family
  2. Playing an orchestral melody in the C position
  3. The brass family and playing in the F position
  4. The percussion family and performing the full melody
  5. Performing the accompaniment for Going Home
  6. Performing the melody and accompaniment for Going Home
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