Unit outcomes
- Verbalise feelings about music and identify likes and dislikes.
- Read musical notation and play the correct notes of the rag.
- Improvise along to a drone and tal.
- Play a rag and a tal accurately alongside a drone.
- Sing accurately from musical notation and lyrics.
- Sing and play in time with others with some degree of accuracy and awareness of each other’s parts.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Introducing traditional Indian music and instruments
Lesson 2: Indian music: Playing a rag
Lesson 3: Indian music: Adding a drone
Lesson 4: Indian music: Introducing the tal
Lesson 5: Indian music: Performing Anile vaa
Key skills
- Discussing the stylistic features
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Key knowledge
- To know that Indian
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Key vocabulary
Bollywood
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Unit resources
Assessment – Music Y3: India
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
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Unit vocabulary
Subject resources
Music: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Music
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National curriculum mapping
This National curriculum coverage mapping document
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Music: Pupil progression of skills
Progression document showing how skills and
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Assessment
An assessment tool for monitoring the
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Equipment list
A list of essential and optional
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Unit vocabulary
A unit-by-unit list of musical vocabulary
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Music teacher skills videos
A collection of teacher skills videos
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities’.
See National curriculum - Geography key stages 1 to 2.
British values: Mutual respect.