Music Year 10 & 11

Year 10 - Music Course Modules

Set Work: Since You Been Gone (AOS4)
Area of Study 4 (Popular Music)
Set Work: Since You Been Gone (Ballard / Rainbow 1979)
Performing this set work / reading form notation and lead sheets.
Terms, Scales, Keys and Chords.
Simple analysis and music theory.
Structured listening.
Term 2: Forms and Devices
Area of Study 1 (Forms and Devices)
Set Work: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart 1787)
Form and analysis.
Simple compositions in set forms.
What makes a good melody?
Developing ideas and getting them written down.
Structured listening.
Term 3: Music for Film
Area of Study 3: Music for Film
Examining how musical devices and elements are used to create specific moods / images.
Compositional project to create a short piece in response to a set brief.
Structured listening.

Term 1: Music for Ensemble
Area of Study 2: Music for Ensemble
Revision Set Works.
Composing to a set brief.
Structured listening.
Term 2: Coursework
Coursework hand in: Performing & Composing
Structured listening.
Exam Practice
Term 3: Examination Preparation
Final preparation for AO3: Listening & Appraising Examination.
Structured listening.
Exam Practice