Targeting Music - A Year-by-Year Series for Teachers in Primary Schools

(age 8-9): In this fifth book of the series, the program for Year 4 is structured similarly to that of Year 3. Designed to consolidate and extend skills, knowledge and understanding, again there is a particular emphasis on skills acquisition.Attuned to the range of National Curriculum experiences, particular features  of this book are: the progressive development of vokal and instrumental techniques, a module focusing on a structured approach to reading and writing music, knowledge and understanding of music placed in an historical context, a musical production. Introduction * MODULE 1 USING VOICES: Technique, posture, voice-warming, part-singing, etc.: Warming up the voice * Vowels * Breathing and phrasing * Right from the start * Jazzing it up * Putting it all together * MODULE 2 WORKING ON INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUES: Beater technique, co-ordination, part-playing, etc.: Performing a piece in medieval style * Fiddle-i-dee * Round and around * Melodic accompaniments * This old hammer * Rondo * MODULE 3 IMPROVISING AND COMPOSING: Structure, musical elements, expression, notation, etc.: Old Blue * Starting from a small cell * Gradual change * Words and sounds * Hallowe'en * Class composition * MODULE 4 READING AND WRITING MUSIC: Pitch, note-values, treble clefs, rests, metre, etc.: Notation: pitch and rhythm * Blck socks * Rests, rhythms and accents * Same song, different rhythm * Looking at musical instruments * Summary lesson * MODULE 5 KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND CONTEXT: Repertoire, history, instruments, cultures, etc.: Soundscapes * Making new sounds * Music through history * Music of the world * Looking at musical instruments, Revision lesson * MODULE 6: PERFORMING A SHOW: The Emperor and the Nightingale, a musical operetta by Margaret Rolf * APPENDIX: Piano accompaniment to "This old hammer"