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Music
Curriculum
Music at Key Stage 3 offers students the opportunity to explore and experience a
range of musical genres from around the world and throughout history. Students
develop their musicality through practice and theory, and also access the most up to
date software for composing and developing their own musical ideas.
YEAR 7
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
Performance: Singing
Staff Notation
Musical Structures
Musical Learning
Melodic awareness
Dynamic contrast
Rhythmic
awareness
Performing as part
of an ensemble
Reading treble and
bass clef
Major and minor
Keyboard skills
Learning how music
is structured
Composition skills
Development of
musical ideas
YEAR 8
The Guitar
Caribbean Music
The Blues
Musical Learning
Reading tablature
notation
Finger picking
Strumming chords
Performance
techniques
History of Caribbean
music
Musical genres
within the Caribbean
Reggae ensemble
performance
12 bar Blues
structure
The Blues scale
Lead and
accompaniment
roles
Improvisation
YEAR 9
Minimalism
Dance Music
Independent Composition
Key Skills
Ostinato
Repetition
Instrumental timbre
Orchestration
Inversion and
retrograde
Sibelius skills
History of dance
music
Two dance music
structures
Technological
impact on dance
music
Performance skills
Independent
research
Rhythm
Form
Structure
Orchestration
Musical articulation
Peripatetic Lessons
In addition to classroom music students have the opportunity to access individual or
group instrumental lessons in every family of instruments. Regents Park offers
instrumental tuition on drum kit, upper strings, electric, bass and acoustic guitar,
woodwind, brass and keyboards. The take up of instrumental lessons this year has
been staggering from the new Year 7 intake and this is something we hope to build
upon in future years.