Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Define some key features of Baroque music, including recitative, canon, ground bass and fugue.
- Take part in a vocal improvisation task based on Baroque recitative.
- Play several parts of a canon using staff notation, with or without letter names.
- Compose a ground bass melodic ostinato.
- Notate a ground bass pattern using staff notation.
- Name some well-known Baroque composers and describe what musical features they were known for.
- Learn a fugue part by reading staff notation, with or without note names.
- Perform a fugue.
Suggested prior learning
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Monteverdi and the invention of opera
Lesson 2: Johann Pachelbel and the canon
Lesson 3: Henry Purcell and the ground bass
Lesson 4: J S Bach and the fugue
Lesson 5: George Frideric Handel and the oratorio
Key skills
- Discussing musical
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Key knowledge
- To know that music
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Key vocabulary
Baroque
bass clef
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Unit resources
Assessment – Year 6: Baroque
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Cross-curricular opportunities
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