Music Curriculum - Key Stage Two

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Pupils should be taught to:

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• sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control

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• develop an understanding of musical composition

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• organise and manipulate ideas within musical structures

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• reproduce sounds from aural memory

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• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 

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• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music

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• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory

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• use and understand staff and other musical notations

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• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians

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• develop an understanding of the history of music