Saturday Morning Listening and Appraising Plan

Wk Date Section Number and Topic Lesson Content

19 28th January 1: Reading and Writing Lesson 1 The Recognising Clefs, Sharps, Flats and Naturals, Recognising Time
Music Basics Signatures, Counting the beats, Rhythms and Metres
Lesson 2 More Dots, Ties, Triplets, Tempo and Mood, Dynamics and Articulation
Complex notation ( Most thing already covered in theory so quick recap)
20 4th February 2: Keys, Scales, Chords Lesson 3 Tonality Major and Minor Scales, The Circle of Fifths, Other types of
and Chords scales (Pentatonic) Intervals, Chords, Triads, Fitting Chords to a
melody and Inversions. (Most already covered in theory or
composition in the case of chords)
21 11th February 2: Keys, Scales, Chords Lesson 4 Recognising common cadences (Intervals e.g. 4th Rather than
Cadences, Imperfect etc.) Modulation (Pivot chord and abrupt modulation),
Modulation and and Texture (Quick Recap already covered last year)
Texture
24 4th March 3: Structure and Form Lesson 5 Form Recap over Binary, Ternary etc. Popular Song Form.
and Structure Listening Questions on everything covered so far
25 11th March 4: Instruments Lesson 6 The Brass Family, Woodwind Family, Wind, Brass and Jazz bands,
Instruments 1 The Orchestra
26 18th March 4: Instruments Lesson 7 Piano Instruments, Percussion, The Voice, Music Technology,
Instruments 2 Timbre, The Classical Orchestra
27 25th March 5: Western Classical Music Lesson 8 Baroque and Classical Music, Structures, Melody Patterns.
Baroque Vs Handel, Mozart, Bach, Classical Structures
Classical
31 22nd April 5: Western Classical Music Lesson 9 The The Great Choral Classics, The Romantic Period, Opera
other half Listening Questions on Instruments and Western Classical
Music
32 29th April 6: Music in the 20th Century Lesson 10 The Expressionism, Serialism, Minimalism
Pure Extreme
Songs from Musicals. Case study (Wicked Defying Gravity)
 Lesson 11 Songs
from The Shows
33 6th May 7: Popular Music Lesson 12 The The origins of Blues music, Jazz Music. Case Study: Miles Davis
Blues and Jazz All Blues
34 13th May 7: Popular Music Lesson 13 Rock Rock Music of the 70s, Pop music of the 80s and the music of
Vs Pop Today. Dance Music and Electronica
35 20th May 8: Dance Music Lesson 14 The Waltz, Salsa, Tango
Basics
39 17th June 8: Dance Music Lesson 15 Line Dance, Irish Jig and Reel, Bhangra. Current disco styles and
Alternative Styles Club Music
40 24th June 9: World Music Lesson 16 British Folk Music, Caribbean Music (Reggae and Calypso)
The Caribbean Vs
Britain
41 1st July 9: World Music Lesson 17 Africa Raga, Rag Dash, African Music, African A Capella singing,
(Rory may need to lead as Vs India Gamelan
my prom the previous
night)
42 8th July 10: Listening and Appraising Lesson 18 - Recap Recap of all things taught. (Units 1 9, Reading and Writing
(Due to previous week this Music, Keys, Scales and Chords, Structure and Form,
could be replaced with Instruments, Classical Music, Music In The 20th Century, Popular
lesson 17 and lesson 18 Music, Dance Music, World Music)
scraped)
43 15th July Listening Paper Listening Paper Full AQA Listening Paper
44 22nd July Recap Paper Recap Paper Recap Paper