Vivaldi - Autumn

Play simple rhythms

Play and clap musical patterns

• Respond to different moods in music
• Recognise how musical elements can be used to create different moods ad effects
• Repeat short rhythmic and melodic patterns

Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf

Simple accompaniment  using dynamics

Term- dynamics

• Sing in tune with expression
• Perform with an awareness of others
• Listen and evaluate music

Space songs

Play and clap simple rhythms and musical patterns

• Use voices in different ways
• Sing with a sense of shape and melody
• Sings in tune with some expression

Handel – Water Music and Firework Suite

Tuned/untuned simple accompaniment.

Terms – pitch, pulse, dynamics

• Sing in tune with expression
• Perform with an awareness of others
• Evaluate and make improvements to their composition
• Listen and evaluate music across a range of genre, styles, traditions and historical periods

Vivaldi - Spring 

Untuned percussion accompaniment 

• Listen and respond to short pieces of music
• Recognise and explore how sounds can be made and changed
• Recognise and explore how sounds can be organised

Beethoven - Pastoral and 5th symphony 

African music

Make own musical instruments for accompaniment 

Terms – pitch, pulse, texture, dynamics, duration, pause

• Recognise how different musical elements are combined and used expressively
• Perform rhythmically simple parts that use a limited range of notes
• Recognise listened to music across different genres
• Recognise and explore the way sounds are combined and used expressively

Traditional Songs

Untuned percussion accompaniment to songs

Term - pulse

• Create and choose sounds to given starting points
• Choose and order sounds within beginning, middle, end and given starting points
• Perform simple patterns keeping to a steady pulse 

Elizabethan Music - Thomas Tallis and Greensleeves

Create and perform musical effects to a story 

Terms – pitch, pulse, texture, dynamics

• Combine several layers of sound 
• Evaluate and improve on their compositon
• Improvise repeated patterns

African Music / Jungle songs

Tuned/untuned accompaniment to songs

Terms – pulse, dynamics

• Listen to and discuss short pieces of music across different genres
• Sing in tune with expression
• Choose and order sounds within beginning, middle and end and given starting points

Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

A.L.Webber - Joseph and his Technicolor Dreamcoat

Compose and perform composition with pictorial symbols

Composition with simple structures ABA

Tuned/untuned accompaniment

• Combine several layers of sound 
• Evaluate and improve on their compositon
• Improvise repeated patterns

Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals

Vivaldi – Summer

Tuned/untuned accompaniment to songs

Terms – pulse, dynamics, silence

• Recognise and explore how sounds can be organised
• Recognise and explore the ways sounds are combined and used expressively

Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee

Composition with rondo structure ABACA

Continue tuned/untuned accompaniment

• Improvise repeated patterns
• Perform with an awareness of others
• Recognise listened to music across a range of genres, styles, traditions and historical periods

Nikki Davis and Charanga songs used throughout the year.