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Year 7 Music


Year 7 Music: 2018-19

Year 7 MUSIC

Term of Study

Topic Covered

Assessments

Autumn Term 1

Elements of Music

Pitch, Texture, Timbre & Dynamics, Sound

Graphic Scores

Pitch, Tempo, Dynamics

Duration, Texture, Silence

Attack & Decay, Timbre

  • Listening baseline test.
  • Performing

Autumn Term 2

Rhythm & Pulse

Exploring Rhythm

Rhythm, Structure & Form

Rhythm, Pulse, Beat, Ostinato

Note Values – crotchet, minim, quaver, pair of quavers, semibreve

Rhythm Grid Notation

  • Listening
  • Composition

Spring Term 1

Building Blocks

Musical Structures

Pitch, Texture, Harmony & Melody, Structure & Form

Melody Writing

Q & A Phrases

Binary, Ternary, Rondo

Song Structure, Ostinato, Drone

Pentatonic

  • Composition
  • Performing

Spring Term 2

Instruments of the Orchestra

Exploring Timbre

Pitch, Texture, Timbre & Dynamics, Melody & Harmony

Strings, Brass

Woodwind, Percussion

March – Class Orchestra

Conducting, Timbre

Tuned & Untuned Percussion

Instrument Research

  • Performing
  • Listening

Summer Term 1

Folk Music

Exploring Folk Music

Pitch, Melody & Harmony

Sea Shanties

British Folk Music

Arrangements

Chords

World Folk Music

Folk Songs of the UK

  • Performing
  • Composition
  • Performing

Summer Term 2

Programme Music

Generating musical ideas based on a stimulus using motifs and themes.

Leitmotif, theme, motif, timbre, programme music, absolute music. Carnival of The Animals- Saint Saens.

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