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title: "Year 8 Music"
url: "https://blackpoolaspireacademy.co.uk/students/home-learning-year-8/year-8-music"
school: "Blackpool Aspire Academy"
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# Year 8 Music

Music Key Stage 3

Listening to and appraising music.  This can be done on or offline and printed sheets are available. Pupils can choose music to listen to.

Online music sequencer which can be accessed via the internet or a phone app: <https://splice.com/sounds/beatmaker>

<https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments>

#### Listening to and Appreciating Different Types of Music

There are three types of sheet:

- Understanding music
- Listening to music for detail
- Reacting to music

Your objectives are:

- Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.
- Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians

For help with this work please email <performing@aspire.fcat.org.uk>

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