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Year 4

Knowledge, Skills and Understanding breakdown for

Music

Year 4

Performing		Composing (incl notation)	Appraising

• Can they perform a simple part	•	Can they use notations to	• Can they explain the place of
rhythmically?		record and interpret sequences	silence and say what effect it
• Can they sing songs from		of pitches?	has?
memory with accurate pitch?	• Can they use standard		• Can they start to identify the
• Can they improvise using		notation?	character of a piece of music?
repeated patterns?	•	Can they use notations to	• Can they describe and identify
		record compositions in a small	the different purposes of music?
		group or on their own?	• Can they begin to identify with
	• Can they use their notation in a		the style of work of Beethoven,
		performance?	Mozart and Elgar?

Year 4 (Challenging)

Can they use selected pitches simultaneously to produce simple harmony?
Can they explore and use sets of pitches, e.g. 4 or 5 note scales?
Can they show how they can use dynamics to provide contrast?
Can they identify how a change in timbre can change the effect of a piece of music?

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