Kaikorai Valley College Music programmes

Kaikorai Valley College Music programmes

What do we learn? Through what units of work do we learn?

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Year 7

Level 3 approxNotation reading rhythms using Rhythm squares crotchet, pairs of quavers, minims, and crotchet rests. Lines and Spaces Bingo (pre-music reading skills).

Aural recognizing duple and triple meter, recognizing pitch contours/shapes (assessed test)Guitar: Chords of D G A (assessed - observation)Vocab Using phrases in student book (rhythm, meter, melody, dynamics) choose words/phrases to describe music listened to (assessed- regular marking of written reponses to music listening)Performing as a class to peers (a Waiata, a Beatles song; using guitar and glockenspiels in accompaniments; performance on other instruments students have learnt)

(assessed observation)Not covered The Beatles: what led to their fame. the instruments they used, how their music changed and why,

(assessed test)

Year 8

Level 3 approxNotation Semibreve, minum, crotchet, quaver, notes and rests. The dot, and the tie. Associated music maths)

Writing a simple score of two percussion parts, correctly aligned (assessed testGuitar reading simple TAB (assessed observation)Listening routine focused questions on a wide range of music.

Vocab: (related to drum unit) ostinato, call and response, syncopation, Not coveredComposition in a group using ostinato and call and response. (assessed performance and written)Drums from their origins, to drum kits shapes where in the world music with call and response and ostinato (assessed written work)

Year 9

Level 4 approxNotation Semibreve, minum, crotchet, quaver, notes and rests. Sharps, flats and naturals. The dot, and the tie. Bass and treble clef notes including ledger lines. Time signatures (2/4, , 4/4) (assessed test)

Aural recognizing rhythms, two bar rhythm dictation (no dotted notes). Recognising melody, completing melody with missing notes (repeats and steps only); identifying meter (duple and triple only) (assessed test)Guitar - playing three chords in a song.

Blues scale and chords using keyboard (assessed observation)

Listening A Z things; and a range of music associated with each unit of work

Vocab associated with each unit. Performing The Can Can on either glockenspiel or keyboard. ( assessed )

Students learning an instrument have the opportunity to perform on their instrument.

1 An 8 bar melody (with opportunities to extend it with an ostinato accompaniment, a middle section, an intro and ending etc) Sibelius used for notating. (assessed)2. Improvise on the keyboard using the blues scale, over the 12 bar blue chords. (assessed observation)West End Blues by Louis Armstrong (origins of blues, features of blues, Louis Armstrong story, (assessed poster)

The Can Can (and a Handel Minuet if time) (reasons for compositions, beat and metre of the dances)

Year 10

Level 5 approxTheory Rhythm - note values up to semiquavers, and dotted quavers, correct rhythmic groupings, rests, anacrusis; simple t/sign; Pitch - ledger lines; transposing up/down 8ve, up and down a 2nd; Tones & semitones; melisma; Major and minor) scales / ksigs up to 2 # and bs, Triads, Chords I IV V

Performance directions to about About Gd 1 (assessed end of year test)

Aural Identifying when (on music) chord changes, melodic dictation with rhythm given, (& vice versa) (assessed end of year test)

Guitar and keyboard skills continue on from Yr 9 and is the bottom line for performance.

Listening a range of musicals styles associated with Music Works

Tuition Students expected to learn instrument or voice to make the most of the course. But not compulsory

Group Short pieces associated with units. (assessed)

Solo One main opportunity on their instrument. (assessed)Performance of composition progress and completed work encouraged

Composition explored within units of work. Encouragement to notate. Examples (units covered vary according to the needs of students)1. (in pairs) a piece for a particular function (eg lullaby, to wake up to in the morning)

2. (in pairs) using features of Indonesian gamelan

3.( in pairs or individual) song with a NZ flavour or topic

4. (pairs) using extremes of dynamics

5. (individual) a series of at least three short pieces for own instrument

(assessed looking at all the students work over the year. )Examples of works covered:

Music For Life exploration of function of music in community and in own lives. (assesst task creating a pamphlet)Gamelan music of Indonesia

NZ 1980s Rock music, ways in which the decade is important in historical context (assesst task - poster)

Volume Pig by Gareth Farr styles, performers, (analysis test and concert review)

Bach Rondeau Score reading, Baroque features, analysis, (analysis test)