MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Head of Creative Art:
Miss Hancock
Teachers of Music:
Miss Hancock
Mr Fisher
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything" - Plato
Year 7 Curriculum Overview
Autumn term
Nightmare Music – An Introduction to the Elements of Music
Birmingham Chants – An introduction to Rhythmic Notation
Spring Term
Piano Tiles
Classical Composition
Summer Term
The Blues
PUNKIT
Year 8 Curriculum Overview
Autumn term
Folk Song
African Rhythms
Spring Term
Pop Goes Pachelbel
Ground Bass Composition
Summer Term
Pop Music
Band Skills
Year 9 Curriculum Overview
Autumn term
Musical Theatre
Band Skills 1
Spring Term
Film Music
Songwriting
Summer Term
Band Skills 2
Free choice of project – students choose either a performance, a composition or an area of music to research
Year 11 Curriculum Overview
Autumn term
Songwriting – Buckley, Bernstein, Capercaillie
Continued solo/ensemble performance
Composition 2
Spring Term
Development of the Orchestra – Handel, Mozart
Expressive Music – Chopin, Schoenberg
Continued solo/ensemble performance
Tidying composition coursework
Summer Term
Revision and Exam Technique
