Music Year 1

Controlling Sounds through singing and playing (performing)Creating and developing musical ideas (composing)Listening and applying knowledge and understanding Responding and reviewing to Music (Listening and appraising)
1p1. Take part in singing.1c1. Make a sequence of long and short sounds with help (duration).1l1. Hear the pulse in music.
1p2. Use voice in different ways to create different effects.1c3. Make different sounds (high and low– pitch; loud and quiet– dynamics; fast and slow-tempo; quality of the sound- smooth, crisp, scratchy, rattling, tinkling etc.– timbre).1l2. Hear different moods in music.
1p3. Follow instructions on how and when to sing/play an instrument.1c4.Choose sounds to represent different things (ideas, thoughts, feelings, moods etc.).1l3. Identify texture– one sound or several sounds?
1p4. Make sounds with a slight difference, with help.1l4. Listen for different types of sounds.
1p5. Make and control long and short sounds (duration). Imitate changes in pitch– high and low.1l5. Know how sounds are made and changed.
1p6. Take notice of others when performing.
1p7. Clap longer rhythms with help.

1p1. Take part in singing

1c1.Make a sequence of long and short sounds with help (duration).

1c4.Choose sounds to represent different things (ideas, thoughts, feelings, moods, etc.).

1c1. Make a sequence of long and short sounds with help (duration).

1c3. Make different sounds (high and low – pitch; loud and quiet – dynamics; fast and slow – tempo; quality of the sound – smooth, crisp, scratchy, rattling, tinkling etc. – timbre).

1c4. Choose sounds to represent different things (ideas, thoughts, feelings, moods etc.).

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