Year 4
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) |
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4p1. Sing in tune, breathe well, pronounce words, change pitch and dynamics. | 4c1. Compose and perform melodies using three or four notes. | 4l1. Know how pulse stays the same but rhythm changes in a piece of music. |
4p2. Sustain a rhythmic ostinato/drone/melodic ostinato (riff) (to accompany singing) on a instrument (tempo/duration/texture). | 4c2. Create accompaniments for tunes using drones or melodic ostinati (riffs). | 4l2. Use more musical dimensions vocabulary to describe music - duration, timbre, pitch, dynamics, tempo, texture, structure, rhythm, metre, riff, ostinato, melody, harmony. |
4p3. Perform with control and awareness of what others are singing/playing. | 4c3. Create (dotted) rhythmic patterns with awareness of timbre and duration. | 4l3. Identify cyclic patterns. |
4p4. Combine sounds expressively (all dimensions). | 4c4. Make creative use of the way sounds can be changed, organised and controlled (including ICT). | 4l4. Know that sense of occasion affects performance. |
4p5. Read notes and know how many beats they represent (minim, crotchet, semibreve, quaver, dotted crotchet, rests). | 4l5. Listen to several layers of sound (texture) and talk about the effect on mod and feelings. | |
4p6. Improvise within a group using more than 2 notes. |
Examples of the skills shown in Year 4
4c1. Compose and perform melodies using three or four notes.
4c1. Compose and perform melodies using three or four notes.
4p3. Perform with control and awareness of what others are singing/playing.
4l2. Use more musical dimensions vocabulary to describe music – duration, timbre, pitch, dynamics, tempo, texture, structure, rhythm, metre, riff, ostinato, melody, harmony.
4l7. Describe different purposes of music in history/other cultures.
4c1. Compose and perform melodies using three or four notes.

4c2. Create accompaniments for tunes using drones or melodic ostinati (riffs).

4c1. Compose and perform melodies using three or four notes.
4c2. Create accompaniments for tunes using drones or melodic ostinati (riffs).

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