Music Department

In Year 9 music lessons you will:

You will spend a part of every lesson focusing on each of these activities which will allow you to improve gradually in each area over the year. The work you complete in Year 9 will allow you to choose GCSE music in Year 10 if you want to.

GCSE Music

What do I need to know, or be able to do, How will I be assessed?
before taking this course?

You have already gained many of the basic skills needed for this course in your music lessons over the last three years at secondary school.
• You have been introduced to creating music of your own in class and this is developed on the GCSE course as you choose two topics for composition. For example, this could be a popular song and a dance track, a classical piece or some world music. There is a wide choice and it can be tailored to your own musical interests and strengths.
• You have already listened to a variety of music in class and these skills are developed as you study some set pieces taken from the classical, 20th century, popular and world music Areas of Study.
• You enjoy making music, either as a soloist or in a group. The GCSE course encourages you to perform music of your own choosing and in any style, as a soloist and also in a group. To take this course, you must be able to offer at least one instrument/or voice.

What will I learn?

You will learn how:
• to improve your performing skills
• music is constructed from initial ideas through to the finished product
• to analyse music in a variety of styles and discover the social and historical context in which music has been composed over the last 400 years or so. Performing you will need to play one solo piece and one ensemble piece.

Composing you will need to create two compositions. Listening & Appraising

Extra Curricular Activities

• School Choir
• Keyboard club
• Music Theory group

We have 2 practice rooms and a music technology room which you can book for rehearsals.