Music Year 2

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)
2p1. Sing songs in ensemble following the tune (melody) well.2c1. Start to compose with two or three notes.2l1. Identify the pulse in music.
2p2. Use voice to good effect understanding the importance of warming up first.2c2. Create short musical patterns.2l2. Listen carefully and recall short rhythmic and melodic patterns.
2p3. Perform in ensemble with instructions from the leader.2c3. Create sequences of long and short sounds- rhythmic patterns (duration).2l3. Recognise changes in timbre (sound quality- smooth, crisp, scratchy, rattling, tinkling etc.), dynamics (loud and quiet), tempo (fast and slow) and pitch (high and low).
2p4. Make and control long and short sounds using voices and instruments, playing by ear and including simple improvisation (duration). 2c4. Order sounds to create an effect (structure- beginnings/endings).2l4. Start to recognise different instruments.
2l3. Change sounds to suit a situation.2c5. Use pitch changes to communicate an idea.2l5. Know music can be played or listened to for a variety of purposes (in history/different cultures).
2p5. Start to look at basic formal notation- play by ear first.2c6. Use changes in dynamics, timbre and pitch to organise music.
2p6. Control playing instruments so they sound as they should.2c7. Make own sounds and symbols to make and record music.
2c8. Carefully choose sounds to achieve an effect (including use of ICT).

Understand key vocabulary related to music

2c1. Start to compose with two or three notes.

2c2. Create short musical patterns.

2c3. Create sequences of long and short sounds- rhythmic patterns (duration).

2p1. Sing songs in ensemble following the tune (melody) well.

2c2. Create short musical patterns.

2c7. Make own sounds and symbols to make and record music.

2p3. Perform in ensemble with instructions from the leader.

2p4. Make and control long and short sounds using voices and instruments, playing by ear and including simple improvisation (duration).

2l3. Change sounds to suit a situation

2p1. Sing songs in ensemble following the tune (melody) well.

2p2. Use voice to good effect understanding the importance of warming up first.

2p3. Perform in ensemble with instructions from the leader.

2p4. Make and control long and short sounds using voices and instruments, playing by ear and including simple improvisation (duration).

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