Yearly Overview- Year One- Music

Elements / Listening / Works / Songs / Resources
Autumn One
Rhythm and Sound / Recognise a steady beat; begin to play a steady beat.
Recognise that some beats have accents (stress).
Move responsively to music (marching, walking, hopping, swaying, etc.). / Guitar / Victor Herbert, ‘March of the Toys’ from Babes in Toyland / The Bear Went Over the Mountain
Bingo
The Farmer in His Den
My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
Pop! Goes the Weasel
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush /

Herbert - Orchestral Suites - Babes in Toyland & The Red Mill by Razumovsky So/Brion (1998)

Autumn Two
Rhythm and Sound / Recognise short and long sounds.
Discriminate between fast and slow. / Piano / Pyotr Tchaikovsky, ‘The Nutcracker’ / The Hokey Cokey
Hush, Little Baby
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Jingle Bells
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Kumbaya (also Kum Ba Ya)
London Bridge is Falling Down /

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Simon Rattle and Berliner Philharmoniker (2010) - Double CD

Spring One
Playing with Sounds / Discriminate between obvious differences in pitch: high and low. / Trumpet / Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals / One Man Went to Mow
Old MacDonald Had A Farm
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
The Muffin Man
This Old Man
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
The Wheels on the Bus /

Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony No. 3, The Carnival of the Animals, etc. by Camille Saint-Saens, Louis Frémaux and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (2007) - CD

Spring Two
Playing with Sounds / Discriminate between loud and soft. / Flute / Edvard Greig, ‘Morning Mood’ and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ from Peer Gynt / Eensy, Weensy Spider
Five Little Ducks That I Once Knew
Happy Birthday to You
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
How Much is that Doggie in the Window?
There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly
I’m a Little Teapot /

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites by Edvard Grieg (1989) - CD

Summer One
Music and Voice / Recognise that some phrases are the same, some are different. / Violin / Richard Rodgers, ‘March of the Siamese Children’ from The King and I / Oh, Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Oh Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone?
One Potato, Two Potato
Teddy Bears’ Picnic
You Are My Sunshine /

The King And I: Music From The Motion Picture by Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Marni Nixon and Carlos Rivas (2001) - Original recording remastered

Summer Two
Music and Voice / Sing unaccompanied, accompanied, and in unison. / Drum / Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals, Elephant / I had a little nut tree
Lavender’s Blue
Polly Put the Kettle On
Ring-a-Ring Of Roses / See Spring One

Songs may be supplemented with many more from other sources including those below:

www.singup.org

Singing Sherlock, Val Whitlock and Shirley Court (2002) This comes with musical accompaniments printed in the book and a CD with voice and backing tracks.

The Usborne Children’s Songbook, edited by Anthony Marks (2004) This comes with simple accompaniments and links for hearing the tunes online.

The National Songbook: Fifty Great Songs for Children to Sing! (2008) Accompaniments are printed in the book but can also be played on the companion CD.