Progression in Musical knowledge, concepts and skills |
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Year 2 |
Progression in Musical knowledge, concepts and skills |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
Year 5 |
Year 6 |
Singing
Pupils should be taught to use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
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Make different sounds with voice and with instruments.
Follow instructions about when to play and sing.
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Sing or clap increasing and decreasing tempo.
Perform simple patterns and accompaniments keeping a steady pulse
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Performing
play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
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Play clear notes on instruments and use different elements in composition.
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Sing songs from memory with accurate pitch.
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Maintain own part whilst others are performing their part.
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Sing in harmony confidently and accurately.
Perform parts from memory.
Take the lead in a performance.
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Playing an instrument
Pupils should be taught to play tuned and untuned instruments musically
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Use instruments to perform and choose sounds to represent different things.
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Play simple rhythmic patterns on an instrument.
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Compose
improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
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Combine different sounds to create a specific mood or feeling.
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Use notation to record compositions in a small group or individually.
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Compose music which meets specific criteria
Choose the most appropriate tempo for a piece of music
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Use a variety of different musical devices in composition (including melody, rhythms and chords).
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Listening and appreciate
Pupils should be taught to listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
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Say whether they like or dislike a piece of music.
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Make connections between notations and musical sounds.
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Listen
listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
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Listen carefully and recognise high and low phrases.
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Explain why silence is often needed in music and explain what effect it has.
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Repeat a phrase from the music after listening intently.
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Accurately recall a part of the music listened to.
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Create own music
Pupils should be taught to experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music
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Clap and repeat short rhythmic and melodic patterns. Make a sequence of sounds and respond to different moods in music.
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Order sounds to create a beginning, middle and an end. Create music in response to different starting points.
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Use and understand
use and understand staff and other musical notations
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Create repeated patterns with different instruments.
Improve my work; explaining how it has been improved.
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Use notation to record and interpret sequences of pitches.
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Use music diary to record aspects of the composition process
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Analyse features within different pieces of music
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Appreciate
appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
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Use musical words to describe a piece of music and compositions.
Use musical words to describe what they like and do not like about a piece of music.
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Identify and describe the different purposes of music.
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Describe, compare and evaluate music using musical vocabulary.
Explain why they think music is successful or unsuccessful.
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Evaluate how the venue, occasion and purpose affects the way a piece of music is created.
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History of music
develop an understanding of the history of music
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Recognise the work of at least one famous composer.
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Begin to identify the style of work of Beethoven, Mozart and Elgar.
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Contrast the work of a famous composer with another and explain preferences.
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Compare and contrast the impact that different composers from different times have had on people of that time. |