The National Curriculum

LEARNING WORLD MUSIC - CURRICULUM
Knowledge, Skills & Understanding.

Learning & Playing World Music covers the interrelated skills of ‘performing’, ‘composing’ and ‘appraising’

Creating and developing musical ideas - composing skills

Produce, develop and extend musical ideas, selecting and combining resources within musical structures and given genres, styles and traditions.

Responding and reviewing - appraising skills

a. analyse, evaluate and compare pieces of music

b. communicate ideas and feelings about music using expressive language and musical vocabulary to justify their own opinions

c. adapt their own musical ideas and refine and improve their own
and others’ work

Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding

c. identify the resources, conventions, processes and procedures, including use of ICT, staff notation and other relevant notations, used in selected musical genres, styles and traditions

d. identify the contextual influences that affect the way music is
created, performed and heard [for example, intention, use, venue, occasion, development of resources, impact of ICT, the cultural environment and the contribution of individuals].

Breath of Study

a. range of musical activities that integrate performing, composing and appraising

b. responding to a range of musical and non-musical starting points

c. working on their own, in groups of different sizes and as a class

d. using ICT to create, manipulate and refine sounds
a range of live and recorded music from different times and cultures including music from the British Isles, the ‘Western classical’ tradition, folk, jazz and popular genres, and by well-known

Links

National Curriculum online

BECTA - ICT in practice awards