'Identify' and 'describe' questions featuring the following vocab: legato, slur, staccato, accent, plus performing techniques for voices and instruments.
Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: legato, slur, staccato, accent, plus performing techniques for voice, strings, woodwind, brass, percussion and guitars.
Formative Assessment Ladder to accompany the extended composing, recording, editing and arranging work of the second half of the unit, and a summative 'Listening and Appraising' test with ‘next steps’ review.
Focus: Developing students' understanding of programmatic music by examining how compositional devices can be used to shape a sense of time and place, direct our focus, and amplify emotion. Building on students' understanding of the relationship between melody, harmony and texture, the unit comprises a range of exercises in deconstructing existing film score fragments, and an extended composing and arranging project to put it all into practice. Resources include teaching materials, student exercises, progress and assessment tools, 'do now' tasks and supporting teacher notes.
Packed with visual and written materials to support the development of student's musicianship in sound, including score fragments, core vocabulary, keyboard orientation tools and the unit's formative assessment ladder, plus plenty of room for 'Do Now' tasks, visual thinking, and listening and appraising responses.
Listening questions to support students' identification of the following: solo, monophonic, melody and accompaniment, unison, octaves, homophonic, tutti, question and answer, call and response, homorhythm, canon, strict counterpoint, imitation, polyphony, fugue.
Listening questions to support students' identification of orchestral timbres and playing techniques.
Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: solo, monophonic, melody and accompaniment, unison, octaves, homophonic, tutti, question and answer, call and response, homorhythm, canon, counterpoint, imitation, polyphony, fugue
Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: BPM, largo, andante, moderato, allegro, vivace, presto, accelerando, rit, rall, rubato. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.
Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: major, minor, modal, diatonic, pentatonic, functional, non-functional, chromatic, consonant, dissonant, microtonal, atonal, modulatory, modulation to dominant, relative major and relative minor. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.
