Music

Music is a universal language, which requires students to perform, to compose, to respond to listening stimuli and to use theoretical concepts in order to best understand the musical world around us. We have designed a curriculum, which offers a broad range of musical contexts from around the world, while encouraging students to play and learn several different instruments and be able to discover music technology using both notation and sequencing software. Students also use the musical elements as a means of enhancing their own performance skills and their compositional ideas, while being encouraged to engage with an extra-curricular program which includes choral skills, rock schools, jazz band and keyboard clubs, and to be a part of Budehaven Community School’s extremely rich history of musical theatre productions.

Lessons in music will usually include reading, theoretical, and practical skills. Our lessons combine activities set within a particular cultural context that allow students to learn through individual, paired and grouped work in order to create compositions of their own, and performances which include their own interpretations of given assessment excerpts.

In Key Stage 3 students will work across three main areas – performing, composing and appraising (listening skills). We introduce styles of music both familiar and new to students, offering a broad range of topics for discovery.

Year 7

Notation and Keyboard Skills
Chord Progressions and Popular Music
Brass Performance

Year 8

Ukulele Performance
Indonesian Gamelan Composition
Notation and the Pachelbel’s Canon
Blues Music

Year 9

Music for the Moving Image Composition
Notation and Jeremiah Clarke’s Trumpet Tune
Jamaican Music

KS4

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Eduqas GCSE Music will motivate and stretch students of all abilities and provide them with the skills and experience to succeed at GCSE & to go on to further study.
The course appreciates all styles and genres, skills and instruments, catering for different learning styles and musical tastes. GCSE Music focuses on practical skills, so students learn to compose and perform music across a variety of styles – and enjoy the freedom to focus on a style or genre close to their heart.

The Subject content is divided into the three assessment components:

Listening Exam 40%
Performance Coursework 30%
Composition Coursework 30%

To be successful Students must be able to perform on an instrument or sing. If you have a love of music, and are dedicated to listening to Music of all genres then this is the course for you.
The four areas of study:

Area of study 1: Musical Forms and Devices
Area of study 2: Music for Ensemble
Area of study 3: Film Music
Area of study 4: Popular Music.
You will also learn set works from the following areas of study:

1. JS Bach – Suite No. 2 in B minor, Movement 7 “Badinerie”
2. Toto – Africa

Extra Curricular:

We offer a diverse range of peripatetic tuition as well as a wide range of extra-curricular music clubs including:

Clubs

Budehaven Voices Choir
Jazz Band
Samba Band
Junior and Senior Rock Bands
Keyboard Club

Peripatetic Lessons

Keyboard
Woodwind
Guitar
Drum Kit
Singing