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Lesson Development and Concepts
Year 1
Introducing Sound and Silence

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Year 1
Introducing the Beat

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Year 1
Introducing Pitch

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Year 1
Introducing Dynamics and Tempo

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Year 1
Introducing Repetition

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Year 1
Introducing Timbre: Our Voice

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Year 1
Introducing Instrumental Knowledge: Percussion

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Year 1
Introducing Rhythm

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Year 1
Introducing Articulation and Tempo

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Year 1
Introducing Form

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Year 1
Developing the Beat: Duple Groupings

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Year 1
Developing the Beat: Duple and Triple

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Year 1
Developing Timbre: Using Your Voice

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Year 1
Developing Pitch: Tonic Sol-Fa, High and Low

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Year 1
Developing Timbre: Performing Sounds

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Year 1
Developing the Beat: Duple, Triple, Quadruple

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Year 1
Developing Pitch: Up and Down

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Year 2
Introducing the Rhythmic Ostinato

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Year 2
Introducing Crotchets and Quavers

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Year 2
Introducing Crotchets and Quavers: Part 2

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Year 2
Introducing Rests

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Year 2
Introducing Bars and Bar Lines

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Year 2
Introducing Melodic Contour

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Year 2
Introducing Form: Sections

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Year 2
Introducing Rounds

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Year 2
Developing Rhythm: Composing

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Year 2
Developing Instrumental Knowledge: The Orchestra

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Year 2
Developing Melody: Steps, Skips, and Tonic Sol-Fa

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Year 2
Developing Articulation

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Year 2
Developing Form: Phrases and Repetition

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Year 2
Developing Instrumental Knowledge: Instrumental Families

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Year 2
Developing the Beat: Strong and Weat Beats

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Year 2
Developing Timbre: Similarities and Differences

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Year 2
Developing Form: Signs, Sections, and Motifs

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Year 2
Developing Timbre: Exploring Pitched and Unpitched Tone Colours

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Year 3
Introducing Syllabic and Melismatic

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Year 3
Introducing the Minim and Semibreve

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Year 3
Introducing Rondo Form

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Year 3
Introducing Notation: Singing and Composing

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Year 3
Introducing Articulation

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Year 3
Developing Form: Patterns in Music

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Year 3
Developing Instrumental Knowledge: Families

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Year 3
Developing Timbre: Differentiating between Sounds

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Year 3
Developing the Beat: Duple/Triple, Weak/Strong

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Year 3
Developing Notation: Bars, Bar Lines and Duple Groupings

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Year 3
Developing Pitch: High to Low with Tonic Sol-Fa and Notation

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Year 3
Developing the Beat: Performing Strong and Weak Beats

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Year 3
Developing Timbre: Orchestral Sounds

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Year 3
Developing Melody: Pentatonic Singing with Tonic Sol-Fa

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Year 3
Developing Notation: Bars, Bar Lines, and Quadruple Groupings

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Year 3
Developing Form: Recognising Patterns

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Year 4
Introducing Staff Notation

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Year 4
Introducing Semiquavers

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Year 4
Introducing Chords

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Year 4
Developing Form: Theme and Variations

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Year 4
Developing Timbre and Genre: Jazz Found Sounds

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Year 4
Developing Melody and Harmony: Phrasing and Rounds

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Year 4
Developing Form: Bridge

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Year 4
Developing Articulation: Listen and Conduct

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Year 4
Developing the Beat: Performing Strong and Weak Beats

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Year 4
Developing Genres of Music: Listening and Identifying

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Year 4
Developing Instrumental Knowledge: Compose, Sing, and Recognise

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Year 4
Developing Form: Introductions

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Year 4
Developing Notation: Bars and Bar Lines in Various Metres

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Year 4
Developing Metre: Cut Time

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Year 4
Mastering Melody: Contour and Rounds

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Year 4
Developing Rhythm: Quaver-Semiquaver Groupings

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Year 5
Introducing Compound Metres

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Year 5
Introducing Two-Part Singing

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Year 5
Introducing Triads

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Year 5
Introducing Texture

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Year 5
Introducing the Anacrusis

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Year 5
Developing Staff Notation and Two-Part Singing: Bass Clef

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Year 5
Developing Metre: Conducting and Performing in 2, 3, and 4!

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Year 5
Developing Tempo: Identifying and Conducting

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Year 5
Developing Texture: Polyphony

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Year 5
Developing Form: Structural Signs

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Year 5
Developing Instrumental Knowledge: Music from Africa

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Year 5
Developing Form: Identifying Sections

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Year 5
Devloping Metre: Irregular and Compound Metres

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Year 5
Developing Instrumental Knowledge: North Africa and the Caribbean

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Year 5
Mastering Tonic Sol-Fa Singing: Pentatonic Music

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Year 5
Mastering Dynamics and Tempo

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Year 6
Introducing Syncopation

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Year 6
Introducing Dotted Crotchet and Triplet Rhythms

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Year 6
Introducing Three-Part Singing

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Year 6
Developing Time Signatures: Mixed Metres

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Year 6
Developing Understanding of Chords: Part I

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Year 6
Developing Understanding of Chords: Part II

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Year 6
Developing Rhythm: Ties and Syncopation

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Year 6
Developing Two-Part Singing

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Year 6
Developing Rhythm: All the Rhythmic Values (Listen, Compose, Perform)

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Year 6
Developing Rhythm: Performing and Composing Syncopation

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Year 6
Mastering the Minor Pentatonic

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Year 6
Mastering Pitch: Intervals

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Year 6
Mastering Form: Identifying Forms

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Year 6
Mastering Rhythm: From Semibreve to Semiquaver

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Year 6
Mastering Dynamics and Tempo: Analysing Music by Ear

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Year 6
Mastering Instrumental Knowledge: Identifying Voice Types and Ensembles

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Year 6
Mastering Time Signatures: Exploring Irregular Metres

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