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Assessment materials for year 9 term 2 'Minimalism'
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Assessment materials for year 9 term 2 'Minimalism'

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Language for Learning: Melodic movement: scalic, modal, moving by step, conjunct, moving by leap, triadic, disjunct, ascending, descending, repeating, modified, improvisatory, fixed, repetitive, slowly evolving. Pitch: low, mid, high, tessitura, register. Notation: score, metre, note names, note values. Texture: melody and accompaniment, unison, octaves, solo, counterpoint, canon, overlapping, phasing. Rhythm: regular pulse, repeating patterns, interlocking patterns, on-beat, syncopated, strict, metric clarity/obscurity/symmetry/asymmetry. Harmony and tonality: major, minor, diatonic, modal, pedal, inverted pedal, drone. Timbre/Forces: ‘like’ forces, live, looped, synthesized, sampled. Structure: ostinato, cyclic, loop, phrasing. Dynamics: loud, strong, forte, quiet, soft, piano, crescendo, diminuendo. DAW: real-time/ step-time recording, sequencing, editing, quantising, balancing, attack, decay, sustain, sample, loop, mix-down.

Assessment materials for year 9 term 1 'Ground Bass'
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Assessment materials for year 9 term 1 'Ground Bass'

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Language for Learning: Melodic movement: scalic, moving by step, conjunct, moving by leap, triadic, disjunct, ascending, descending, repeating, modified, improvisatory, fixed, repetitive, sequence. Pitch: low, mid, high, tessitura, register. Notation: score, metre, note names, note values, bar, beat, line, part, voice, system. Texture: melody and accompaniment, homophony, homorhythm, unison, octaves, solo, block chord, broken chord, imitation, imitative counterpoint, layering, doubling. Rhythm: regular pulse, ostinato, on-beat, syncopated. Harmony and tonality: major and minor, chord, triad, inversion, cadence, consonance, dissonance. Timbre/Forces: orchestral strings, piano, harpsichord. Structure: ground bass, chordal ostinato, cyclic. Dynamics: loud, strong, forte, quiet, soft, piano. DAW: real-time/ step-time recording, sequencing, edit, quantise, balance, loop, duplicate, mix-down.

Assessment materials for year 8 term 3 'The Four Chord Trick'
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Assessment materials for year 8 term 3 'The Four Chord Trick'

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Language for Learning: Melodic movement: scalic, moving by step, conjunct, moving by leap, triadic, disjunct, chromatic, ascending, descending, repeating, phrase, improvisatory, is it a melody or just a broken chord? Pitch: low, mid, high, octave, in 3rds. Notation: stave notation, chord symbols, Roman numerals, slash/inversion chords. Texture: melody and accompaniment, melody, bass and chords, broken chords, octave doubling. Rhythm: on-beat, off-beat, syncopation, up-beat, down-beat, improvisatory. Harmony and tonality: triad, functional harmony, primary triads, key, cadence, consonance, dissonance, tonic, dominant, sub-dominant, I, IV, V, VI, pedal notes. Timbre/Forces: voice types and functions, rhythm section, horn section, strings. Structure: chordal ostinato, intro, verse, chorus.

Assessment materials for year 7 term 2 'British Folk Music'
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Assessment materials for year 7 term 2 'British Folk Music'

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Language for learning: Melodic movement: scalic, major, modal, moving by step, conjunct, moving by leap, triadic, disjunct, ascending, descending, repeating, in relation to the tonic and dominant. Pitch: low, mid, high. Notation: metre, note names, note values, bar, beat, line, part. Texture: melody and accompaniment, unison, octaves, solo, 2-part. Rhythm: pulse, repetitive, dotted, scotch snap, metre - both simple and compound. Harmony and tonality: major and modal (dorian), tonic, dominant, pedal, drone, I ‘one’, V ‘five’, key signature. Timbre/Forces: voices, pipes, fiddle, guitar, hurdy-gurdy, penny whistle, bodhran. Structure: strophic, refrain, chorus, phrase, AA’BA’, contrast, repetition.

Assessment materials for year 7 term 1 'Building our Music Community'
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Assessment materials for year 7 term 1 'Building our Music Community'

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Language for learning: Melodic movement: moving by step, moving by leap, ascending, descending, repeating, in relation to the tonic. Pitch: low, mid, high, octave. Notation: metre, note names/values, bar, beat, clef, stave, treble, key signature. Texture: melody and accompaniment, unison, solo, layering, octaves. Rhythm: pulse, repetition, even, uneven, tempo, time signature. Harmony and tonality: tonic. Timbre/forces: voice types, choir, band, orchestra, a cappella. Structure: verse, chorus, introduction, ending. Dynamics: loud, strong, quiet, soft.

Eduqas GCSE AOS 2: Music for Ensemble - Folk song, sacred vocal, secular art song
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Eduqas GCSE AOS 2: Music for Ensemble - Folk song, sacred vocal, secular art song

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Eduqas Areas of Study

Teaching materials with supporting teacher notes. Thumbprints of styles and genres, aural training and analytical listening questions focusing on sonority and texture. Genres explored: sea shanty, folk ballad, folk custom song, carol, hymn, gospel, mass, motet, oratorio, cantata, opera, aria, recitative, chorus, chorale, lied, mélodie and secular choral music. Exam style questions to finish. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for further questions and to broaden and deepen students' understanding of the conventions associated with this Area of Study.

OCR GCSE AOS 5: Conventions of Pop - Solo Artists 1990 to present day
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OCR GCSE AOS 5: Conventions of Pop - Solo Artists 1990 to present day

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OCR Areas of Study

Teaching materials covering key aspects of Disco Pop, Pop Soul, Piano Ballads, Dance Pop, Synth and Electro Pop, Chamber Pop, Neo Soul and Indie Pop. Reverb, delay, EQ, and filter sweep, explained and illustrated in Electro Pop, EDM and Indie Pop. This resource includes thumbprints of style, aural training, practice questions, extended writing training, exam style questions and moderation exercises. Rehearsing and performing tasks include working out chord sequences featuring dominant 7ths, extensions, slash and sus chords. There's also idiomatic Pop writing tips for students composing songs as part of their coursework. An additional wider listening playlist provides starting points for further questions to broaden and deepen students' understanding of style and genre.

Elements - Melody: melodic dictation, intervals, range, devices, degrees of the scale
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Elements - Melody: melodic dictation, intervals, range, devices, degrees of the scale

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Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Practice questions and aural training exercises to support melodic dictation, interval recognition, the identification of melodic devices, ornamentation, degrees of the scale, scale identification, describing melodic shapes and movement, distinguishing melodic lines from one another, and melodic comparison questions. 30 extracts in total, including 14 single line score questions.

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