Our Lady's Catholic High School
Intent
The Music Curriculum at Our Lady’s is designed to enable pupils to develop their musicianship through the interrelated strands of Performance, Composition Understanding, Listening to and Appraising music. It’s spiral progression is in tune with pupils’ musical influences and works in harmony with their aural understanding.
“The heart of music is it’s rhythm” – Wynton Marsalis.
Professor Martin Fautley believes that “Music lessons…should be focussed on developing imagination and creativity…”. Throughout both key stages, pupils are taught to internalise the fundamental building blocks of music; tempo, duration, dynamics, rhythm, pitch, structure, timbre and texture, through a range of engaging, dynamic activities which incorporate the strands. Pupils use their voices and explore how music is created. They develop techniques to perform with accuracy and expression, extending and developing musical ideas through improvisation and composition. They explore a range of musical styles, genres and traditions, developing a deepening understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history.
Making music is part of what makes us human. We want all of our pupils to know that as we know more and more of God, we also become more and more aware of ourselves.
