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Unit outcomes
- Create rhythms and arrange them in a particular order or structure.
- Identify the structure of a piece of music and write it down.
- Describe whether a musical texture is thick or thin.
- Explore ways of writing down different textural layers.
- Follow a given structure for a composition.
- Write a structure score accurately.
- Compose music with several layers.
- Perform their composition accurately, following the structure score.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Rhythm and structure
Lesson 2: Structured graphic score
Lesson 3: Layered graphic score
Lesson 4: Compose with structure
Lesson 5: Rehearse and perform
Key skills
- Recognising timbre changes in music they listen to.
- Recognising structural features in music they listen to.
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Key knowledge
- I know that a graphic score can show a picture of the structure of music.
- To know that a graphic score can show a picture of the layers, or ‘texture’, of a piece of music.
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Key vocabulary
beat
bow
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Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Music Y2: Myths and legends
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit.
Vocabulary display: Myths and legends
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Myths and legends unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- develop pleasure in reading […] by:
- becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates’.
See National curriculum - English key stages 1 to 2.
British values: Mutual respect.
