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- Music Activities
- Listening and responding
- Composing
- Performing
Key Stage 3 Music
All pupils are potentially musical and can benefit from learning experiences which develop their knowledge, understanding and skills. By actively engaging with the core musical activities – composing, performing and listening – they learn more about both making and responding to music. At Key Stage 3, they have opportunities to improve their understanding of how interdependent composing, performing and listening are.
In all three activities, they create personal meaning, express their own feelings, explore diverse musical tastes and experiment creatively.
They focus on music in society, both in their own culture and others, past and present, and learn about its power to evoke mood and atmosphere.
They also learn about how to be discriminating consumers of music, and become more aware of the skills required to be successful in the music industry.
For examples of suitable classroom activities, see:
- 12–bar blues
- Composing fanfares
- Composing motifs
- Composing radio jingles
- Composing signature tunes
- Composition: musical recipes (Year 10)
- Composition: varying a tune (Year 9)
- Listening
- Listening and performing 1
- Listening and performing 2
- Listening: comparing two versions of the same piece of music (Year 8)
- Listening: musical recipes (Year 8)
- Listening: varying a tune (Year 8)
If you are developing a programme of study for Music, please refer to the statutory requirements of the Northern Ireland Curriculum.