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Overview:
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Autumn 1 |
Musical Elements:
Melody; harmony; texture; timbre; pitch;
rhythm; structure; dynamics etc. |
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Autumn 2 |
Ternary Form and Rondo Form
Explore concepts through range of music;
compose both in blues style – group work and
performance. Focus on improvisation and
melody skills, structure and the way of
creating contrast and development.
Introduce Ground Bass and Variations. |
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Spring 1 |
Expressionism and Serialism
[including focus on pitch and use of
sibelius] |
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Spring 2 |
Dance Music 1985 – present day
Extending into Britpop and its influences.
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Summer 1 |
Indian Raga and African Music
Exploring details of both of these and
working with outside professionals |
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Summer 2 |
Songs from Musicals
Focus on Performance |
As
part of the GCSE course, students receive instrumental
tuition, paid for by the school. Students are expected
to join in one of the extra curricular activities.
Results
The
music department are very proud of our academic results,
with a 34 students gaining A’s and A*s at GCSE over the
last few years. Last year our A*-C GCSE pass was rated
91%, with students performing 0.84 better in music than
in other subjects.
20
of our former students are now studying music at higher
education.
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