Music — Year 11

 

Music Overview

Term 1: Instrumental Music

Bach – “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, 3rd movement” (AOS 1)

Knowledge/Skills – Understand the set work in the context of the baroque era and the concerto

Outcome – Ability to recognise the use of baroque conventions.

Examination questions

Free composition project

Composition - controlled assessment

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Develop performance and composition skills. Deepen understanding of music and culture. Explore music from different times and places.

Create a supportive community:

Understanding of the history of music and how people expressed themselves in the past.

Term 2: The Classical and Romantic Eras

Beethoven – “Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Pathétique, 1st movement” (AOS 1)

Knowledge/Skills

Understand the set works in the context of the classical and romantic eras. Be able to write for the piano and understand sonata form.

Outcome

Ability to describe the structures and techniques used in the set work

Examination questions

Solo performance - controlled assessment performance

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Develop performance and composition skills. Deepen understanding of music and culture. Explore music from different times and places.

Create a supportive community:

Understanding of how music was used as expression in the past.

Term 3: Music for the Screen

‘Main title/Rebel Blockade Runner’ (from Star Wars) – John Williams (AOS3)

Knowledge/Skills

Know how music enhances a visual image and the tricks composers use to create different feelings and emotions.

Outcome

Ablility to compose and harmonise a leitmotif and arrange for multiple instrumental parts

Examination questions

Leitmotif composition

Ensemble performance - controlled assessment performance

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Develop performance and composition skills. Deepen understanding of music and culture. Explore music from different times and places.

Create a supportive community:

Understanding of how music can be used to manipulate the emotions of others.

Term 4: Composition

Knowledge/Skills

Understand various different ways of composing to a set brief

Outcome

Ability to produce a composition to a set brief

Composition to a set brief - controlled assessment

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Develop performance and composition skills. Deepen understanding of music and culture. Explore music from different times and places.

Create a supportive community:

Term 5: Composition/Set Works recap

Knowledge/Skills

Ability to recall historical and contextual information about the set works.

Outcome

Ability to successfully answer all types of exam questions. All composition and performance coursework is finished.

Two compositions completed

All performance completed

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Develop performance and composition skills. Deepen understanding of music and culture. Explore music from different times and places.

Create a supportive community:

Understanding historical and contextual factors of music.

Term 6: Revision and Examination Preparation

Knowledge/Skills

Ability to recall historical and contextual information about the set works.

Outcome

Ability to successfully answer all types of exam questions.

Examination questions

Vocabulary tests

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural
Develop the individual:

Create a supportive community: