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KS3 Music scheme of work for year 9 term 1 'Ground Bass'

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Focus: Developing students' understanding of texture, in particular - homophony, canon and polyphony. Improvising, arranging and rehearsing exercises, focusing on the manipulation of compositional devices, and the development and deployment of short melodic motifs over chordal and bass ostinati. Resources include teaching materials, student exercises, progress and assessment tools, 'do now' tasks and supporting teacher notes.

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GCSE Listening and Appraising - practice question 7

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GCSE Listening and Appraising - practice question 8

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Exam style practice questions suitable for homework and revision

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GCSE Listening and Appraising - practice question 9

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Exam style practice questions suitable for homework and revision

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Yr 8 Homework and Revision task 8

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Progressive listening and appraising resources

Ten questions with a score fragment and embedded clip, exploring degrees of the scale, metre, harmonic devices (pedal note), anacrusis, texture (unison, melody and accompaniment), articulation (legato, staccato, pizzicato).

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Yr 8 Homework and Revision task 9

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Progressive listening and appraising resources

Ten questions with a score fragment and embedded clip, exploring the string quartet, rhythm (triplet, dotted), dynamics (crescendo), metre, tempo (rall), naming pitch on stave, playing techniques (pizzicato and arco), ensemble groupings and roles.

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Yr 9 Homework and Revision task 6

Specialist vocabulary, notation and listening questions

Progressive listening and appraising resources

Ten questions with a score fragment and embedded clip, exploring texture (melody and accompaniment), extension chords, melodic range, tempo, rhythm (on and off beat), recognising rhythmic patterns and beat location by ear.

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GCSE Listening and Appraising - cover lesson 5

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Questions on chord progressions, metre, texture, timbre, rhythmic recognition, ornamentation, tonality, texture, rhythmic devices, intervals, structures, keys, cadences, types of scale

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GCSE Listening and Appraising - cover lesson 6

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Questions on rhythm, intervals, tonality, compositional devices, phrase structures, dynamics, texture, cadences, tonality, metre, deployment of forces, Baroque characteristics and genres

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Four-part harmony exercise 5

Suitable for all exam boards that have an SATB J.S.Bach chorale four part harmony question

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The perfect cadence in context. Working out simple V-I cadences in home and related keys. Methodical parallel 5th/8ves and doubling checks.