Music Overview Year 8
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW – Music
YEAR 8 - SPRING TERM
Main areas of work:
African Music
Understanding the conventions of African music
Learn how details of musical conventions can be developed to express individual ideas while staying integrated within a given styles, genre or tradition.
Learning how to explore within a range of idiomatic musical styles, genres or traditions, integrating their own ideas into stylistically consistent outcomes
Indian Music
Understanding the conventions of Indian music
Learn how details of musical conventions can be developed to express individual ideas while staying integrated within a given styles, genre or tradition.
Learning how to explore within a range of idiomatic musical styles, genres or traditions, integrating their own ideas into stylistically consistent outcomes
Useful Websites:
EncyclopaediaofPercussion.com
African Music Library.com
Aboutmusic.com
BlackandClassicalmusic.co.uk
Musicindia.com
Musicatschool.co.uk
Themusicland.com
MusicIndia.com
Key words for research:
Syncopation
Polyrhythm
Call and response
Ostinato
Improvisation
Tala
Drone
Call and Response
Tabla
Sitar
Raga
Tambura