Avonbourne School
A Business & Enterprise College
KS3 information
See below for details
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Year 7
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Benchmark Attainment Tests
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These are a series of tests to assess the level at which each pupil enters the school.
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Elements of Music
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A short composition project to introduce the basic ingredients of music.
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Telephone Notation
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An introduction to music notation.
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Latin Rag
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A keyboard performance project.
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Music from the Far East
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A composition project based on the features of Chinese or Japanese music. This project includes improvisation work.
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12 Bar Blues
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A performance project focussing on the key features of blues music. This project also involves improvisation work.
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Waltz
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A performance project using music with a ¾ time signature
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Year 8
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African Drumming/Samba
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A performance and composition based project looking at the music from Africa or Brazil. This project involves a lot of improvisation and plenty of noise!!
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Baroque – Ground Bass
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A composition project based on music from the baroque period. Looking in detail at Pachelbel’s Canon.
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Reggae
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A performance project using the song ‘I Can See Clearly’.
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Ning Nang Nong Notation
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A short music notation project.
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Music to a Visual Stimulus
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Composition project based on advertising. Writing jingles.
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Ragtime
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Performance based project using the well known piece ‘The Entertainer’
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Year 9
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Skills and Performing in Popular Music
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An introduction to guitar, bass guitar, drums, sequencing, samples, vocal techniques and songwriting.
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Vocal Skills and Songwriting
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Composing songs
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Film Music
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Composing music to fit with a selection of film clips. Exploring how and why music is used.
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