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MUSIC LEARNING PROGRESSION YEAR 9 Component 1: Listening to and Understanding Music Component 2: Performing Music Component 3: Composing Music Higher 7-9 Middle 4-6 Foundation 1-3 Identify: More orchestral instruments (trombone, double bass) and new popular instruments (synthesiser, saxophone). Popular musical structures and compositional devices (Ostinato, 12 bar blues). Basic rhythms and melodies. Describe melodic shape. The use of dissonance / chromaticism or chord colour. Identify: Orchestral instruments and new popular instruments (synthesiser). Simple time signatures consistently. Popular musical structures and compositional devices (Song, riff, backbeat, loops). Basic rhythms and melodies. Major and minor tonalities. Identify: Common popular and orchestral instruments. Simple time signatures consistently with minimal prompt. Basic musical structures (Verse / Chorus, Ternary Form). Basic rhythms or melodies. Identify major or minor tonalities. Confident performance in music that uses more difficult rhythms e.g. semi-quavers / triplets / syncopation. Largely successful levels of accuracy in pitch, rhythm (intonation where appropriate) and fluency. Attention to style and detail is evident. Secure performance in music that uses basic music notation and begins to consider more difficult rhythms E.g. Syncopation. Back-beats etc ) Largely successful in accuracy of metre, rhythm and pitch. Consideration of style is notable in most of the performance A safe performance in music that uses basic music notation (quavers, crotchets, minims, semibreves and rest values). Generally successful in accuracy of metre, rhythm and pitch. Some consideration of style with some attention to detail. Compose and develop rhythmic patterns and harmonic progressions using notation competently and with little or no support. A clear structure is apparent. Successfully uses music to create some flair and imagination. Good use of harmony and melodic development. Compose and develop rhythmic patterns and harmonic progressions using notation with little or some support. There is sound sense of a structure. Demonstrates a good understanding of how music can be used to create a sense of melody and harmony. Compose and develop rhythmic patterns and harmonic progressions using notation with support. There is little or some success in achieving a solid structure. Demonstrates some sound understanding of how music can be organised. pg. 2
KEY WORDS WORD DEFINITION Carol A Christmas song which is diatonic (in key) and religious in its lyrics. Chord Two or more different notes played together at the same time. Cadences Marking Points in the Music, marking the end of phrases or sections Simple Time Signature A time signature where the metre uses a plain note so it can be halved i.e 4/4. Melody A tune. Can be diatonic (notes from the chord/key) or chromatic (all the white and black notes one after the other). Dynamics Loud and quiet. F (forte) is loud and P (Piano) is quiet. Lyrics Words to a song. Texture The amount and types of instruments playing (listen out for changes). pg. 3
Winter Wonderland (LYRICS) Please see you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcxsm51ui5m Sleigh bells ring Are you listening In the lane Snow is glistening A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight Walking in a winter wonderland Gone away, is the blue bird Here to stay, is the new bird He sings a love song, As we go along Walking in a winter wonderland In the meadow we can build a snowman And pretend that he is Parson Brown He'll say are you married We'll say no man But you can do the job When you're in town Later on We'll conspire As we dream by the fire To face unafraid The plans that we've made Walking in a winter wonderland Sleigh bells ringing Are you listening In the lane Snow is glistening A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight Walking in a winter wonderland Walking in a winter x2 Walking in a winter wonderland pg. 4
LISTENING TO Winter Wonderland Michael Buble's Winter Wonderland (finish at 2:27) 1. What is the time signature of this extract? Circle your answer. (1) 2 3 4 4 4 4 2. Map out the structure of the music using verse chorus, instrumental or outro The first one has been done for you. (8) 1 Intro 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 3. Name 4 instruments that can be heard on this track? (4) 4. What is the style of Music? (1) 5. What type of the voice is the singer? Circle your answer. (1) Soprano Alto Tenor Bass 6. Describe what happens to the melody in the outro? (2). Marks /17 Listening Levels converter Strand F- F F+ M- M M+ H- H H+ Score 1-3 4-6 7+ 7-8-10 11+ 11-12-14 15+ My Strand Result =. pg. 5
READING MUSIC RECAP Symbol Value / Counts Name Rest Symbol 1 / 4 Semiquaver 1 / 2 Quaver 1 Crotchet 2 Minim 4 Semibreve Notes on the Treble Clef pg. 6
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Reading Notation Levels converter Strand F- F F+ M- M M+ H- H H+ Score -23 24-34 35+ 36-36-46 46+ 46-47-64 65+ My Strand Result. pg. 8
PERFORMING Winter Wonderland Foundation pg. 9
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Can you work out the notes for the melody????? pg. 12
Evaluating My Work Task Assessment What was good? How can you further improve? Listening to Winter Wonderland Reading Notes Performing Winter Wonderland pg. 13
KEYBOARD AND APPRAISING SKILLS THE BEATLES pg. 14
Topic 2 With a Little Help from my friends by the Beatles Some Back Ground The album was recorded as if Sgt. Pepper was a real band. It opens with the title track, then segues into "With A Little Help from My Friends." Beatles drummer Ringo Starr sang lead, introduced as "Billy Shears," a name chosen because it sounded good and played up the idea that the group was in character. The song was never released as a single, but became one of the group's most enduring tracks. Since it there is no break on the album between the fade of the title track (and "Billy Shears" introduction) and the beginning of this song, radio stations were forced to either play the tracks together or play the awkward open. This was one of the very last songs John Lennon and Paul McCartney sat down and wrote together in a true collaboration. They were at Paul's house messing around on the piano. The original title was "Badfinger Boogie." The Beatles got some use out of the name when they signed a group to their label, Apple Records, and named them Badfinger. The cheering at the beginning was taken from a Beatles concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The Beatles had stopped touring by the time this was recorded. John Lennon claimed this was not about drugs, but many people didn't believe him, including US vice president Spiro Agnew, who once told a crowd that this song was a "Tribute to the power of illegal drugs." He said the lines, "I get by with a little help from my friends, I get high with a little help from my friends," "Is a catchy tune, but until it was pointed out to me, I never realized that the 'friends' were assorted drugs!" The first line was originally "What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?" Ringo did not want to sing it, fearing that if they ever did it live he would be pelted with tomatoes. The Beatles finished recording this the night they shot the cover for the Sgt. Pepper album. This continued the "Concept" of the album, but until the reprise of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" at the end, the theme of the fictional band ends with this. Twelve years after "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "With a Little Help from My Friends" appeared on the Sgt. Pepper album, they were released together as a two-song medley and reached US #71 and UK #63. pg. 15
When Ringo Starr was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, he performed this song with many of the evening's participants, including Joan Jett, Miley Cyrus, Dave Grohl, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney. Joe Cocker's 1968 cover was used as the theme song for the '80s/'90s TV series The Wonder Years, starring Fred Savage. This hit #1 on the UK chart three times: first by Joe Cocker in 1968, again by Wet Wet Wet in 1988 and finally by Sam and Mark in 2004. What do you notice about this album cover? What can this tell us about the time the music was composed? pg. 16
With a little Help from My Friends Lyrics What would you think if I sang out of tune Would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song And I'll try not to sing out of key Oh I get by with a little help from my friends Mm I get high with a little help from my friends Mm gonna try with a little help from my friends What do I do when my love is away? (Does it worry you to be alone?) How do I feel by the end of the day? (Are you sad because you're on your own?) No I get by with a little help from my friends Mm I get high with a little help from my friends Mm gonna try with a little help from my friends (Do you need anybody?) I need somebody to love (Could it be anybody?) I want somebody to love (Would you believe in a love at first sight?) Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time (What do you see when you turn out the light?) I can't tell you, but I know it's mine Oh I get by with a little help from my friends Mm I get high with a little help from my friends Oh I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends (Do you need anybody?) I just need someone to love (Could it be anybody?) I want somebody to love Oh I get by with a little help from my friends Mm gonna try with a little help from my friends Oh I get high with a little help from my friends Yes I get by with a little help from my friends With a little help from my friends. pg. 17
Listening to A little Help with My Friends 1. What is the time signature of this extract? Circle your answer. (1) 2 3 4 4 4 4 2. Map out the structure of the music using Verse, Bridge, chorus or outro. The first one has been done for you. (11) 1 Intro 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3. Name 4 instruments that can be heard on this track? (4) 4. What beats of the bar/metre does the guitar mainly play on? Circle you answer (1) 1 and 2 2 and 3 1, 3 and 4 1, 2, 3 and 4. 5. How many different chords can you hear in the chorus? Circle your answer. (1) 2 3 4 5 6. How does the timbre change in the second chorus? (2). 7. What melodic device is heard in the second verse? Circle you answer. Unison Call and response sequence ostinato (1) /20 pg. 18 Strand F- F F+ M- M M+ H- H H+ Score 1-4 5-8 9+ 9-10-12 13+ 10-13-16 17+
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Evaluating My Work Task Assessment What was good? How can you further improve? Listening to With a little help from my friends. Reading Notes Performing With a little help from my friends. pg. 24