Modern musical learning is about performing music, composing your own original music that represents your interests and learning about a range of music and their unique musical features which influence the development of music over time. It requires students to have a variety of skills with performance, listening, analysing and appraising and ideally have an understanding for reading conventional music notation.

You will read the notation of music from the 17th Century to the 1980’s and discuss the social history of the times in which it was written and other music of the time. There will be regular dictation, listening and essay tasks too. You will also be learning about how to harmonise music in the style of J.S Bach, but also have opportunities to write arrangements, or create a Club Dance Re-Mix track if you prefer to