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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

Year 5 Music Objectives

PERFORMING:

Using their voices:
  • 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:
  • 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:
  • 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

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