Music - Year 8
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
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| Knowledge | Film Music Composition Performance Students will understand the role of music in films. They will learn the different musical devices in film, and prepare a composition of a storyboard they have written | The Blues One of the fundamental styles of music, students will discover the history of the blues and its inception within the slave trade. We will study how blues have influenced pop music, and explore the 12 bar blues. | Garageband - Soundscape composition We return to music tech learnt in Y8, but deepen our understanding of music technology and composition skills. The students will work on creating a soundscape. | Experimental Music This project is designed to encourage students to ‘think outside the box’ and exam what music really is. They will explore the history of experimental music, try out music making using different styles and non conventional methods and examine graphic scores | Music Notation and Keyboard Skills Returing to music notation learnt in Y7, students will revise and expand their knowledge of reading music, understanding how to read music more fluently and prepare a keyboard performance. | Collaboration of all skills performance Based on what is learnt across the year, students prepare all skills for an end of topic test. |
| High frequency vocabulary and grammatical structures taught | Click Track Cues Diagetic Leitmotif Mickey Mousing Non-diagetic Syncing / sync point Underscore Major Minor Chord Scale Diminished Whole Tone | 12 bar blues Chord Walking bassline Swung rhythm Blues scale Improvisation Syncopation Off-beat Vamp Jazz | Soundscape Quantizing Automation Garageband Loop Sample Midi Keyboard Synthesizer Bouncing Sound Effect | Graphic score Chance composing John Cage Peter Maxwell-Davies Fibonacci sequence | Notation Stave Treble Clef Bass Clef Alto Clef Semibreve Minum Crotchet Quaver | Ensemble Dynamics Texture Pitch Rhythm Tempo |
| Assessment | Film Composition | 12 Bar Blues/ Hound Dog Performance | Garageband Soundscape | Live Experimental performance from a graphic score | Keyboard Performance | Written assessment, live performance |
| Cultural Capital Careers Cross Curricular Links | Understanding of Film industry | American Civil rights movement, UK history, Development of Jazz | Composing for a purpose: understanding of composition industry. ICT skills, music technology | Using music to explore mental health, maths in music, art with graphic score creation | History of music notation, European history. Teaching notation skills to become self-sufficient when learning keyboard notation |