LeysPrimary School

Year 4 Music Curriculum Map

Year 4 Objectives / Unit
Looking at music notation with reference to metre and accent
Building an extended performance piece from a poem
Using canon and ostinati as accompaniments
Paying attention to notation, accent, diminuendo and balance / Poetry Y4A
Using beatbox techniques to imitate the sound of a drum kit
Performing a rap with a vocal beatbox accompaniment / Poetry Y4A
Performing a poem with rhythmic accuracy
Devising a rhythmic accompaniment based on repeated text fragments
Balancing voices in a performance / Poetry Y4A
Exploring how different timbres can be descriptive / Environment Y4B
Exploring combinations of different timbres to accompany a song
Learning how to accompany a song with dance and ostinato on tuned percussion / Environment Y4B
Exploring the descriptive music of two major composers
Composing an introduction for a song / Environment Y4B
Learning about classifying instruments by the way sounds are produced
Learning about some simple beatboxing sounds
Singing a song and adding beatboxing sounds / Sounds Y4C
Learning about aerophones
Learning to sign partner songs / Sounds Y4C
Learning about classifying instruments by the way sounds are produced
Exploring the combined expressive effects of different instrument groups / Sounds Y4C
Making instruments
Performing verse and chorus structure
Interpreting notation
Improvising / Recycling Y4D
Making instruments
Performing verse and chorus structure
Interpreting notation and improvising
Understanding ABA structure / Recycling Y4D
Performing repeating rhythms
Chanting in 3 parts
Exploring sounds
Performing rondo form / Recycling Y4D
Learning about verse and chorus song structure
Combining four body percussion ostinato as a song accompaniment / Building Y4E
Understanding texture
Learning about layered structure in a rhythmic ostinato piece
Creating rhythmic ostinati
Accompanying a melody with a drone / Building Y4E
Describing the structure of a piece of orchestral music
Reading a clock score to play a piece of combining drone and melodic ostinati
Using rondo structure to build a performance / Building Y4E
Exploring the pentatonic scale
Playing leaps
Reading graphic notation / Around the World Y4F
Developing listening skills
Describing music using musical and non musical terms
Composing and notating pentatonic melodies / Around the World Y4F
Playing a pentatonic song with leaps
Combining tuned, untuned percussion and singing / Around the World Y4F
Learning a verse and chorus song
Understanding that melodies have phrases
Exploring layers and layering / Ancient Worlds Y4G
Comparing and contrasting structure
Understanding layers in musical structure
Identifying key features of minimalist structure / Ancient Worlds Y4G
Playing in groups
Combining sections of music in a layered structure
Rehearsing and preparing for a performance / Ancient Worlds Y4G
Singing in groups
Creating descriptive music / Singing Spanish Y4H
Singing in a minor key in groups
Developing descriptive song accompaniments / Singing Spanish Y4H
Singing in two parts with accompaniment
Performing repeating rhythms
Combining tuned, untuned percussion and singing. / Singing Spanish Y4H
Copying rhythms and a short melody
Playing ostinati and layering them in a performance / Communication Y4I
Using music to communicate a meaning
Composing a rap / Communication Y4I
Playing ostinati and layering them in a performance / Communication Y4I
Identifying the metre of a new song
Singing in three independent parts
Playing and singing repeated patterns from notation / Time Y4J
Identifying metre in a piece of music
Understanding syncopation and using off-beat rhythms in improvisation
Combining independent parts in more than one metre / Time Y4J
Identifying how a well-known story has been told in music
Creating music which tells a story / Time Y4J
Learning to play a renaissance dance from notations
Composing a fanfare
Understanding simple musical structures / In the Past Y4K
Learning a dance and playing music used for celebrations / In the Past Y4K
Learning a 1960s pop song
Creating a performance / In the Past Y4K
Combining expressive use of the voice with physical movement
Responding to sound with visual signals
Performing sequences of sounds matched to visual sequences / Food and Drink Y4L
Singing a call and response chant
Composing and playing sequences of word rhythms
Understanding and performing rondo structure / Food and Drink Y4L
Learning a traditional West African call and response song
Learning to sign a verse and chorus song
Learning rhythmic and melodic accompaniments for a song and combining them in a performance / Food and Drink Y4L