Lower School Schemes of Work

Year 7

THEORY
PRACTICAL
LISTENING
AUTUMN

Pitch and rhythm notation in the treble clef

Learning how instruments work

The Orchestra

Working in groups to learn tunes

Singing: Canons, When I’m 64

Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra

Peter and the Wolf

SPRING

Clapping rhythms

Types of Scale

Structure in music

Contrast in music

Pentatonic compositions in ABA form

Pieces with ABA structures

Pictures at an Exhibition

SUMMER

More notation and rhythm, instrument recognition

Describing things in music

Programme pieces: Moods and Titles

Carnival of the Animals. (Saint Saens)

Mars (Planets)

Dance of the Knights (Prokofiev)

Year 8

THEORY
PRACTICAL
LISTENING
AUTUMN

Playing the Keyboard

Improvising (Scales)

Learning tunes on the keyboard

Lieutenant Kije

Various Concertos covering Baroque to Modern

SPRING

Learning to use Sibelius

Write a fanfare

Film Music

Fanfares

Film Music examples

German Baroque

Pachelbel/Bach/Handel

SUMMER

The scales and structure of INDIAN MUSIC

RAGS/TALS/ALAPS

Writing an Indian piece

Indian music examples

Year 9

THEORY
PRACTICAL
LISTENING
AUTUMN

The structure of the 12 bar blues

Basic TRIADS

Fitting Lyrics to music

Music structures

Cover version of HOUND DOG

Minimalist Composing

Hound Dog and other 12 bar Blues examples

Bohemian Rhapsody

Musicals

SPRING

Triads to melody

Ground Basses

Musical structures

Begin GROUND BASS compositions

Seventies Music

Bohemian Rhapsody

SUMMER

Song structure

Chord progressions

Finish Ground Bass Compositions

Write a pop song

Movements from West Side Story