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Year 7 Welcome and
Baseline Assessment
Actively seek out rewards
Volunteer to help others
UNIT 1: BUILDING BLOCKS
Develop good independent study habits
Be introduced to the Music Department, advice and Enrichment Programme!
OPTIONS EVENING
Make your informed GCSE option choices
Reignite your passion for
Enrichment!
Embed excellent study habits and get ahead with revision
Consider the format of MUSIC GCSE examinations and refine Music revision techniques
Complete Y10 mock exams to get GCSE ready
Revise for and sit your Y11 mock Music examination.
Develop your wellbeing and relaxation techniques ready for exams
Develop an effective Music revision calendar and put it to use.
Apply for University through UCAS or alternative post 18 courses
Reflect on your journey so far
Refine and perfect your revision techniques
Revise for and complete your Y13 mock exams
Continue your lifelong love of learning and
personal development
UNIT 2: CHINESE MUSIC
UNIT 3: COMPOSING AN 8-BAR MELODY
UNIT 4: KEYBOARD SKILLS
UNIT 5: INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA
UNIT 6: DANCE MUSIC
ACROSS THE AGES
UNIT 7: MUSICAL FUTURES
UNIT 8: REGGAE
UNIT 9: MUSIC OF THE WESTERN CLASSICAL TRADITION
UNIT 10: JAZZ & BLUES
UNIT 11: ROCK & ROLL
UNIT 12: FILM MUSIC
UNIT 13: POPULAR
MUSIC
Sit Y7 end of year Music Exam
THEORY BOOSTER!
Sit Y8 end of year Music Exam
FORMS & DEVICES
MUSIC FOR ENSEMBLE
POPULAR MUSIC
SET WORK STUDY
SUMMER GCSE LISENING &
APPRAISING EXAM
ALL COURSEWORK COMPLETETD
EXAM REVISION & PRACTICE
FILM MUSICCOMPOSITION BRIEF Start!
COMPOSITION “FREE” Start!
SOLO & ENSEMBLE RECORDINGS
EDUQAS MUSIC GCSE EXAMINATION
MUSIC DEPARTMENT LEARNING JOURNEY
UNIVERSITY APPRENTICESHIP
GAP YEAREDUQAS MUSIC A
LEVEL EXAMINATION
AOS1 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYMPHONY
FREE COMPOSITION & PERFORMANCE
HAYDN 104WELCOME & THEORY BOOSTER
SOLO RECITAL EXAMINATION INTO THE 20TH/21ST CENTURY
COMPOSITION TO A BRIEF
Learning about # & b and the pentatonic scale and Improvising on the pentatonic scale.
Vocal technique and posture
Music literacy & context
Staff Notation: treble clef, time signatures, signs and symbols
Develop an understanding of musical instruments.
Sequencing & LoopingWhole class ensemble work
To understand syncopation and how it is used in reggae music
Music in context; the study of the western classical music canon (key dates, events, people, pieces, musical features etc…)
12-bar blues structure & improvisation. 7th Chords!
Triads
Bass lines
Lyric writing
UNIT 14: SAMBA
Themes & Motifs
How music can enhance the visual images and dramatic impact of film, and can reflect the emotional and narrative messages of the drama.
About the different types and styles of songs from different times, places and styles.
Be entered in for the ABRSM Grade 5 theory exam if not achieved already.
classical style typical harmonic
progressions sonata form
structural balance, phrasing and melodic shapes, typical devices such as arpeggio figuration, sequence textural contrasts and devices such as unison, counterpoint, fugato
tonality, related keys, typical cadence, progressions, approach chords,
OPTION CHOICE