KS3 Curriculum Booklet

Music

Curriculum

Music at Key Stage 3 offers students the opportunity to explore and experience a range of musical genres from around the world and throughout history. Students develop their musicality through practice and theory, and also access the most up to date software for composing and developing their own musical ideas.

YEAR 7

Autumn Term

Spring Term Staff Notation

Summer Term

Performance: Singing

Musical Structures

Musical Learning

 Melodic awareness  Dynamic contrast  Rhythmic awareness  Performing as part of an ensemble

 Reading treble and bass clef  Major and minor  Keyboard skills

 Learning how music is structured  Composition skills  Development of musical ideas

YEAR 8

The Guitar

Caribbean Music Musical Learning History of Caribbean music Musical genres within the Caribbean Reggae ensemble performance

The Blues

 Reading tablature notation  Finger picking  Strumming chords  Performance techniques

 12 bar Blues structure  The Blues scale  Lead and accompaniment roles  Improvisation

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YEAR 9

Minimalism

Dance Music

Independent Composition

Key Skills

 Ostinato  Repetition  Instrumental timbre

 History of dance music  Two dance music structures  Technological impact on dance music  Performance skills

 Independent research  Rhythm  Form  Structure  Orchestration  Musical articulation

 Orchestration  Inversion and retrograde  Sibelius skills

Peripatetic Lessons

In addition to classroom music students have the opportunity to access individual or group instrumental lessons in every family of instruments. Regents Park offers instrumental tuition on drum kit, upper strings, electric, bass and acoustic guitar, woodwind, brass and keyboards. The take up of instrumental lessons this year has been staggering from the new Year 7 intake and this is something we hope to build upon in future years.