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Approaches to contemporary composition

In this unit pupils are introduced to contemporary compositional approaches and techniques. They learn about a range of current contemporary music and the differences in approach of how this is structured and put together from earlier classical style music and current popular music.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

Prior knowledge

Pupils understand a range of compositional starting points - ostinato, melody, bass line, chord sequence
Pupils have experience improvising in fixed and short structures
Pupils understand melodic phrase structure
Pupils understand major and minor scales
Pupils understand how to find the notes in the treble clef stave

Source curriculum references

Improvise and compose; and extend and develop musical ideas by drawing on a range of musical structures, styles, genres and traditions
Use staff and other relevant notations appropriately and accurately in a range of musical styles, genres and traditions
Identify and use the interrelated dimensions of music expressively and with increasing sophistication, including use of tonalities, different types of scales and other musical devices
Listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of music from great composers and musicians
Develop a deepening understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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