"The long and short of it"

The following chart show how the new A & C Black scheme can be used to provide broad coverage in line with the National Curriculum for Music for England.

This guidance is designed to supplement the materials available in this new scheme of musical activities.

Special Note: I am grateful for the work of Alison Keates and Dot Atkin (Shropshire Music Service) who worked with me in the preparation of this new support material.

	Music 2000	Programme of Study for Year 1
	Key Stage 1	A & C Black 'Music Express'	"The long and short of it"
	Pupils should be taught how to:	Objectives	Activities
	Controlling sounds through singing and playing - performing skills		Page/Activity
1a	use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes	To use the voice to sing songs, exploring long and short sounds.	16/1; 18/1; 21/2; 22/2; 19/1; 19/2; 20/1;
1b	play tuned and untuned instruments	To explore instruments and control sounds.	21/1; 21/2;
1c	rehearse and perform with others	To perform fireworks music	16/3; 18/3; 19/3; 22/1; 22/3;
	Creating and developing musical ideas - composing skills
2a	create musical patterns
2b	explore, choose and organise sounds and musical ideas	To use the voice to explore long and short sounds; To use the instruments to explore long and short sounds.	16/1; 18/1; 21/2; 22/2; 19/1; 19/2; 20/1;
	Responding and reviewing - appraising skills		Page/Activity
3a	explore and express their ideas and feelings about music using movement, dance and expressive musical language	To respond to sounds of different duration with movement	21/2; 21/3; 21/3; 22/3;
3b	make improvements to their own work
3c	Not applicable to KS1
	Listening and applying knowledge and understanding		Page/Activity
4a	to listen with concentration and to internalise and recall sounds with increasing aural memory	To recognise different sound sources. To focus listening.	16/2; 12/3; 18/2; 20/2; 21/1;
4b	how the combined musical elements of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture and silence can be organised and used expressively within simple structures	To explore duration and dynamics.	16/2;
4c	how sounds can be made in different ways and described using given and invented signs and symbols	To respond to a visual stimuli	16/2;
4d	how music is used for particular purposes

 

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