Subject Lead: Miss Norton
The music curriculum at Denbigh aims to provide children with a range of musical experiences and access to music tuition from professional musicians. Focus changes on a half termly basis for every year group through Foundation Stage to Upper Key Stage 2. The aim is to show progression and a development of musical skills throughout the key stages.
We aim to expose children to a range of genres, styles and instruments that can be used in performance or as a means of expression.
Music is an important part of life at Denbigh and, paired with our performing arts school (Denbigh Academy of Performing Arts) which takes place as an after school club, we aim to offer children a means to learn and perform to an audience and their peers. Children enhance their learning through use of technology, singing assemblies and extra- curricular clubs and tuition.
At Denbigh, we value the Arts and believe that all children should have access to a broad range of musical experiences.
Threshold Concept: To perform music using their voice and instruments
Find the pulse whilst listening to music and using movement
Recognise different instruments
Begin to understand that the rhythm is a mixture of long and short sounds that happen over the pulse
Copy and repeat a simple rhythm or melody
Understand that pitch describes how high or low sounds are
Understand that tempo describes how fast or slow the music is
Understand that dynamics describe how loud or quiet the music is
Play untuned/percussion instruments musically
Sing song, chants, rhythms and raps musically with accuracy
Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
Use his/her voice expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes with growing confidence
Play tuned instruments musically
Improvise a simple rhythm using different instruments including the voice
Understand that timbre describes the character or quality of a sound
Understand that texture describes the layers within the music
Understand that structure describes how different sections of music are ordered
Develop an understanding of melody, the words and their importance in the music being listened to
Sing a song in two parts (including rounds)
Practise, rehearse and present performances to audiences accurately
Listen with direction to a range of high quality music
Confidently recognise a range of musical instruments
Understand that improvisation is when a composer makes up a tune within boundaries
Understand that composition is when a composer writes down and records a musical idea
Sing songs with multiple parts with increasing confidence
Develop an understanding of formal, written notation which includes crotchets and rests
Begin to listen to and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
Confidently recognise a range of musical instruments and the different sounds they make
Confidently recognise and explore a range of musical styles and traditions and know their basic style indicators
Use musical language to appraise a piece or style of music
Copy increasingly challenging rhythms using body percussion and untuned instruments where appropriate
Sing as part of an ensemble with confidence and precision
Play and perform in solo or ensemble contexts with increasing confidence
Develop an understanding of formal, written notation which includes minims and semibreves
Listen to and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
Compose complex rhythms from an increasing aural memory
Understand how pulse, rhythm and pitch work together
Improvise with increasing confidence using own voice, rhythms and varied pitch
Sing as part of an ensemble with increasing confidence and precision
Play and perform in solo or ensemble contexts with some accuracy, control, fluency and expression
Use and develop an understanding of formal, written notation which includes staff or stave and the role of the dot for extending a note
Develop an increasing understanding of the history and context of music
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
Play and perform in solo or ensemble contexts with increasing accuracy, control, fluency and expression
Create a simple composition and record using formal notation
Develop a deeper understanding of the history and context of music
Appropriately discuss the dimensions (pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and notation) of music and recognise them in music heard
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory and accuracy
Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
Deepen an understanding and use of formal, written notation which includes staff or stave and the role of the dot for extending a note
Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music (pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and notation)