Steps |
Understanding and Reviewing |
Step eight |
- Evaluate musical choices in performance and composition and justify them in appropriate musical vocabulary
- Demonstrate an ability to think widely about music and compare and contrast alternative viewpoints through discussion with others
- Understand how music in a particular genre or style has developed over a period of time
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Step seven |
- Discuss the features of a piece of music which work together to reflect a mood, culture or sense of occasion
- Present a well formed opinion and show a willingness to engage with alternative perspectives
- Explain how different parts within a piece work together to reflect a mood, culture or sense of occasion
- Understand how conventional staff notation can be used to notate, extend and think differently about melodies and rhythms
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Step six |
- Use an extended musical vocabulary to express personal taste
- Explain and comment on individual and combinations of instruments and their expressive use in their own and others’ music
- Understand, interpret and perform from others’ graphic scores
- Express an opinion or judgement about a piece of music and justify it in a basic way
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Step five |
- Understand how sounds combine and create different effects, moods and feelings
- Understand that rhythms can be notated on simple grids
- Evaluate different styles of music and describe using appropriate musical vocabulary
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Step four |
- Understand how pitch can be represented on graphic and other simple scores
- Use appropriate musical vocabulary with understanding to describe different styles of music
- Develop an ability to analyse their own music and suggest improvements
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Step three |
- Understand symbols can be used to represent specific sounds
- Understand that music can be divided into different sections
- Understand different sounds suit different moods
- Comment constructively on the music produced by others
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Step two |
- Understand that pictures can be used to represent and organise sound
- Develop a basic understanding of how music is organised
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Step one |
- Understand that different instruments produce different sounds
- Respond to music in an intuitive way through movement
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