Curriculum Intent
The aim of the Music curriculum is to enable our students to appreciate, articulate and participate in the triumphs of musical prowess across the world and the ages. Practically, we aim to give students the opportunity to create meaning through the creative arrangement of components and developing an understanding of Music as an expressive medium of Art.
We teach our students the three main disciplines: ‘Performance’, ‘Composition’ and ‘Listening and Appraising’, teaching the theoretical elements of Music, such as Dynamics, Rhythm, Pitch, Structure, Melody, Instrumentation, Tempo, Texture, Timbre and Harmony, and teaching them about different styles, genres. We focus on developing cultural capital, developing students’ cultural awareness, enabling students to understand the world around them. We do this in components such as Blues music, MOBO, Western Classical, Samba (from Brazil) and others, which exposes students to the wider world and historical and cultural understanding of where music originated from.