Music
The philosophy of the Music Department is:-
- To promote a deeper understanding of the structure of music and its cultural and social contexts, both past and present.
- To stimulate enjoyment and appreciation of all types of musical experience.
The Department
Music is taught in a specialist area of North Birmingham Academy. We have a large classroom equipped with keyboards, a practice room, a sound - proofed drumming space which is used by our many and varied rock bands and a small apple mac suite and a class-set of i-macs, on which students record their own music and edit video projects. A number of peripatetic instrumental teachers, producers and professionals visit the school regularly to work with our students. For 2009/2010 we offer instrumental tuition on the following instruments
- Woodwind
- Keyboard
- Drum Kit
- Dhol Drums
- Guitar
- Voice
Course Overview
- To encourage all students to become musically literate.
- To allow as many students as possible to have individual instrumental tuition.
- To enable students to participate in special music projects, both in the curriculum and out of school hours.
- To arrange a variety of opportunities for performance to a variety of audiences.
- To enable pupils to understand the importance of music as part of society through cross-curricular links.
- To provide opportunities for students to work with professionals from the music industry.
Course Structure
Key Stage 3 Music is taught as part of the core in Year 7 (See Curriculum Section).
Year 8 and 9
- To encourage each student to fulfil his or her potential, through the medium of music, in each of three disciplines:
- Listening - to enhance listening skills particularly those of concentration, appreciation and critical analysis.
- Composing - to encourage each student to express ideas and feelings through composition using various compositional techniques.
- Performing - to further self-confidence and performance skills by performing to an audience.