GCSE Schemes of Work

Year 10

THEORY
PRACTICAL
LISTENING
AUTUMN

Phrasing and Cadences

Extending a melody

Sequence

Indian Music

Baroque Music

Complete the Amazing Grace Variations

Write a Jazz Waltz

Handel – Messiah

Buckley - Grace

Rag Desh

SPRING

Classical Era

Expressionism

African Music

Write a ternary form Piano Prelude

Mozart – Symphony 40

Schoenberg _Perepetie

Chopin – Raindrop Prelude

SUMMER

More notation and rhythm, instrument recognition

Describing things in music

Continue the piano preludes

Rag Desh 2

Steve Reich -Electric Counterpoint

Miles Davis -All Blues

Year 11

THEORY
PRACTICAL
LISTENING
AUTUMN

Minimalist music and its techniques

Write a Minimalist Piece

Solo Performance recorded

Bernstein – Something’s Coming

Rag Desh (3)

Moby – Why does my Heart

Koko - Yiri

SPRING

Practice Papers

Finish Minimalist Piece – then free choice

Ensemble Performance recorded

Capercaille – Skye Waulking Song

Revision