Year
10
Unit/Topic
Activities
Recorder & Guitar
Course
1. Music all
Around us.
We explore many aspects of
music………how much it is a part of our
lives, why it is used in certain ways,
think a little more about all the different
types of music…and their role, impact
and effect.
We investigate Music and Mood
Music and Image including the role of
music in film and advertising.
Listening and discussing: To a broad
range of styles and genres, their
purposes, uses, effects caused by
musical elements. Comparing and
experimenting with music as an
accompaniment to image.
Performing and comparing music
using different moods and musical
expression including major and minor
among other key elements.
Composing music to a given brief of
mood, occasion or image and using the
appropriate elements to achieve this.
You continue to expand
your recorder repertoire
and note range learning
pieces that utilize the
range of the recorder up to
High A.
Pieces:
Musette.
Twinkle, Twinkle
transformed.
Scales: Include D Major,
E Minor, G Major.
2. Winter
Assessment
s and
Christmas
Activities
We begin a course in
Guitar using a Year 10
booklet which you will
receive. You will be
expected to practice your
chords and progressions as
set for homework. You
can use the Music
Department guitars in
school to practice with
permission, or guitars that
you may have access to at
home.
Chords and
Progressions: Begin with
Em, Am, C, E.
For your winter assessment you will
Exam piece using the
prepare a piece of music on both recorder chords of:
and guitar and present these as a
Em, Am, C, E.
duet/ensemble; taking turns to play both
Recorder exam piece
parts.
using notes up to and
Christmas activities include instrumental including High A, High G
ensembles (with guitar parts) of
and High F#.
Christmas pieces:
Silent Night Ensemble
Jingle Bells, Winter
Wonderland.
3. Jazz and Blues In this unit we learn about the roots and
history of Jazz and Blues music. You
will do some homework research using
ICT.
We listen to a variety of pieces and
identify and compare musical features
of these genres in both modern and older
contexts.
We perform music in theses styles as
groups and individuals.
We learn how to apply basic
improvisation techniques to ‘jazz’ up
and transform music.
We perform the 12 bar blues in
ensembles.
Continue with chord
progressions, and move on
to the 12 Bar Blues in
the keys of C, D and G
‘O when the Saints’ Jazzing up a March.
Improvisation on recorder
and orchestral
instruments.
Chord structure on guitar.
Ensemble performance
of the 12 Bar Blues.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music/
contemporarymusic/bluesandjazzrev1.shtml
http://www.jass.com/jazzo.html
4. The Eras of
Music
5. Summer
Assessments and
end of year
activities.
Music Now!
Using a Year 10 booklet supplied and
specific websites we investigate key
composers, their backgrounds and
music from the 3 of the main eras of
music history - Baroque, Classical and
Romantic. Through research and
listening at home and in class, and
through performance and composition
exercises we experience the changing
styles, features and worlds of legendary
composers such as Mozart, Beethoven
and Bach.
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/eras
For your summer assessments you will
prepare a piece of music given to you on
the instrument of your choice – again
built into an ensemble. You will also
have a listening paper covering the topics
studied this year with aural and theory
based questions.
Short Projects and presentations on
Careers in Music,
The Music Industry including music
sales, the web, piracy…….
http://www.creative-
Continue through pieces
in Guitar Booklet in class
and at home.
Use guitar, recorder and
orchestral instruments in
performance and
composition exercises in
the Eras Booklet –
including
‘Fanfares’
Vivaldi’s - ‘Winter’ class
performance &
‘Ode to Joy’ up to date!
You will be assessed on
your chosen instrument on
a piece you will be given
to prepare which will be
presented as an ensemble.
choices.co.uk/knowledge/jobprofiles/music-job-profiles/