MUSIC - SCHEMES OF WORK

For Children Aged 7 to 11

Music Lessons Structure

Time – Approx. 60 minutes

  1. Remind class of last topic area explored and relate to current topic.
  2. Discuss and explore with examples. Cultural Background.
  3. Listening & Response.
  4. Drama – Pupils enact areas of topic where appropriate.
  5. Music Practice & Experimentation.
  6. Practical Application – discuss how topic area is applied in every life.
  7. Making Connections – discuss and explore connections between topic and other topic areas and subjects.
  8. Media – use video clips and programmes and/or computer programmes and websites where appropriate.
  9. Record through text and illustrations. Pupils under 10 to copy teacher’s whiteboard recording. Pupils above 10 to record using their own words.
  10. Plenary & Quiz.

Resources

  1. Music Books
  2. Printed Music
  3. CDs
  4. iTunes Library
  5. Internet
  6. Musical Instruments – Guitars, Recorders, Finger Pianos, Percussion
  7. Montessori Bells
  8. Newspapers & Magazines
  9. Apple Mac
  10. DVD Videos and Clips

Music Subject Areas

  1. Music Theory
  2. Musical Instruments
  3. History of Music - Classical
  4. History of Rock Music

YEAR 3

Autumn Term

1. MUSIC THEORY

  1. General
  1. Stories About How Music Began
  2. Usages of Music
  3. The Ritual Dance / Ceremonial Music
  4. Secret Code Music
  5. Working Music
  1. How Music Works
  1. Tempo – Timescales
  2. Beat
  3. Rhythm
  4. Melody
  5. Harmony

Spring Term

2. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

  1. Types of Musical Instruments
  1. Percussion
  2. Origins of Percussion
  3. Percussion Instruments
  4. Wind Instruments
  1. Origins of Wind Instruments
  2. Woodwind
  3. Brass
  1. String Instruments
  1. Origins of String Instruments
  2. String & Bow Instruments
  3. Finger Picking Instruments
  1. Combinations of Instruments
  1. Universal Combinations
  2. Classical Combinations
  3. The Orchestra

Summer Term

3. HISTORY OF MUSIC

  1. The Musical Family Tree
  1. World Folk Music
  1. African
  2. European
  3. Asian
  4. North American
  5. South American
  6. Australian

YEAR 4

Autumn Term

1. MUSIC THEORY

  1. How Music Works
  1. Counterpoint & Polyphonic Singing
  2. Musical Notes
  3. Notation

2. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

  1. Types of Musical Instruments
  1. Keyboard
  1. Origins of Keyboard Instruments
  2. Keyboard Instruments
  1. Electronic Instruments
  1. Origins of Electronic Instruments
  2. Types of Electronic Instruments
  1. The Human Voice
  1. Origins of Singing
  2. Song
  3. Choral
  4. Modern Singing
  1. Combinations of Instruments
  1. Jazz Combinations
  2. Modern Combinations

Spring Term

3. HISTORY OF MUSIC

  1. The Musical Family Tree
  1. Music of the Renaissance
  1. Medieval Music – Wandering Minstrels - Plainsong
  2. Development of Polyphonic Singing
  3. Thomas Tallis
  4. First Printed Music
  1. Baroque
  1. Introduction & Overview – Development of Counterpoint
  2. Baroque Culture
  3. J.S. Bach
  4. Vivaldi
  5. Handel
  6. Telemann

Summer Term

  1. Classical
  1. The Classical Style
  2. The Enlightenment
  3. Haydn
  4. Mozart
  5. Beethoven
  6. Schubert

YEAR 5

Autumn Term

1. MUSIC THEORY

  1. How Music Works
  1. Notation
  2. Keys & Scales
  3. Chords & Improvisation

2. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

  1. Types of Musical Instruments
  1. Sampling
  2. Distortion
  1. Combinations of Instruments
  1. Rock Combinations

Spring Term

3. HISTORY OF MUSIC

  1. The Musical Family Tree
  1. Romanticism
  1. The Romantic Style
  2. Ideals of Romanticism
  3. Berlioz
  4. Chopin
  5. Schumann
  6. Liszt

Summer Term

4. HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC

  1. The Ingredients of Rock Music
  1. The Rock Music Family Tree
  2. African Beat, Gospel, Blues, Jazz & Country
  3. Rhythm & Blues
  1. The 1950’s – Rock ‘n’ Roll
  1. Cultural & Political History of the 50’s
  2. Black & White Rock Music – Racism of Record Companies
  3. Elvis Presley & British Imitations