Year 5 Topics
- Film Music & Soundscapes – Space / Science-Fiction genre: foley artists and the creation of sound effects.
- Exploring storytelling through movement, music and narrative songs - Theseus & the Minotaur / Heroes of Troy.
- How musical instruments work: Lost & Found Orchestra (junk percussion ensemble)
- Music / Movement / Silent Film Music (Hugo Cabret)
- WWII - War and Peace - V.E. Day Celebrations / Old and Contemporary Songs about War and Peace
- British Music Since the 1940s - influences, popularity, evolution of dance and social change, genres
- Soundscapes - science of sound, world music (instruments), exploring timbre and texture
- Brazilian Music / Samba / Capoeira
- Exploring storytelling through movement, music and narrative songs - Theseus & the Minotaur / Heroes of Troy.
- How musical instruments work: Lost & Found Orchestra (junk percussion ensemble)
- Music / Movement / Silent Film Music (Hugo Cabret)
- WWII - War and Peace - V.E. Day Celebrations / Old and Contemporary Songs about War and Peace
- British Music Since the 1940s - influences, popularity, evolution of dance and social change, genres
- Soundscapes - science of sound, world music (instruments), exploring timbre and texture
- Brazilian Music / Samba / Capoeira
Year 5 Music Objectives
PERFORMING:
Using their voices:
Using instruments:
- Sing songs in a wide variety of styles, showing accuracy and expression
- Sing as part of a three part round
- Sing a second part of a two part song with increasing confidence
- Sing a song with an understanding of its history and purpose (i.e. song about the environment, gospel song, protest song)
- Perform a song showing an awareness of phrasing and the shape of the melody
- Sing independently with increasing confidence and accuracy
Using instruments:
- Play a range of percussion and orchestral instruments with increasing confidence and ability.
- Play and improvise as part of a group and as a solo performer
- Maintain own part in a small instrumental group
- Play with a sense of pulse in a variety of metres
- Perform a piece of music using notation (graphic or conventional)
- Play by ear – copy back; finding phrases or melodies on instruments with increasing confidence
- Sustain a melodic ostinato or drone to accompany singing/other instruments
- Perform expressively showing an understanding of the music and its context
- Perform in a variety of styles/genres and own compositions, to an audience of adults and school assembly
COMPOSITION:
Explore:
Compose / Arrange:
- The different sounds and timbres that can be made on certain orchestral instruments and use them to effect in compositions
- Conventional and graphic notation to record simple rhythmic/melodic compositions
- Short rhythmic and melodic ostinatos on tuned and untuned instruments through improvisation
- Layering rhythmic and melodic ostinatos
- Different metres, syncopation and how to swing the beat
- Improvising over a drone
- Chords / note clusters
- Different computer programes for sampling, sequencing, and composing music
- Techniques for recording and sharing music
Compose / Arrange:
- Music for a special occasion (i.e. a fanfare)
- Lyrics to match a melody
- Descriptive music in groups, using the musical elements and musical devices such as repetition, ostinatos, drones, combining musical phrases and effects
- A group / class arrangement of a song using voices and instruments
- Refine and record compositions either graphically or using ICT
LISTENING & APPRAISAL:
Listening and Appraising:
Appraisal:
- Recognise aurally the range of instruments (percussion and orchestral) taught in the school
- Recognise and talk about specific styles/traditions of music with a growing awareness of the musical differences and similarities
- Recognise music from different times and countries indentifying key elements that give it its unique sound
- Recognise and identify features of expression (phrasing, dynamics, different tempi) in an extract of live or recorded music
- Recognise relationships between lyrics and melody
- Recognise chords / clusters
Appraisal:
- Talk about music they hear using musical terms
- Talk about the combined effect of layers in their own arrangements and compositions and how their pieces can be refined to achieve their desired effect
- Talk about the differences in musical styles/genres and reflect and articulate how and why these differences occur
VOCABULARY:
Pulse, Rhythm, Metre, Phrase, Melody Scale, Chord Cluster, Drone, Ostinato, Repetition, Notation, Accompaniment, Arrange, Record, Duration, Pitch, Texture, Timbre, Tempo, Dynamics, Structure