EYFS

Year 1/2

Year 3/4

Year 5/6

• action
• beat
• clap
• listen
• instrument
• join in
• loud
• melodic shape
• melody
• pulse
• quiet
• rhythm
• scratchy
• sing
• smooth
• sound
• speed
• tempo
• texture

• beat
• chant
• clap
• click
• compose
• dimensions
• duration
• emotion
• end
• fast
• high
• humming
• instrument
• introduction
• listen
• long
• loud
• low
• melody
• middle
• pattern
• percussion
• perform
• pitch
• pulse
• repetition
• review
• rhythm
• score
• short
• sing
• soft
• song
• sound
• steady
• symbol
• tempo
• texture
• timbre
• whisper
• whistle

• bars
• beat
• canon
• chorus
• composition
• conductor
• contrast
• crotchet
• dynamics
• expression
• higher
• improvisation
• instruments
• layers
• leaps
• lower
• louder
• melody
• metre
• minim
• notes
• orchestra
• ostinato
• percussion
• performance
• play
• pulse
• quaver
• quieter
• read
• repeated notes/ signs
• rhythm
• rounds
• sounds
• soundscape
• staff notation
• stave
• steps
• structures
• syncopated
• (un)tuned
• verse
• vocal
• voice

• 2, 3 and 4 metre
• 5 notes
• acapella
• accuracy
• awareness
• balance
• beat
• blues
• canon
• choir
• chords
• classical
• coda
• combinations
• compare
• composition
• conductor
• context, contrast
• control
• drone
• dynamics
• ensemble
• expression
• genres
• graphic score
• group
• harmony
• improvise
• independent
• instrument
• jazz
• leaps
• major scale pattern
• melody
• notes
• orchestra
• ostinato
• performance
• pitch
• purpose
• quaver
• repeated note
• rhythm
• rondo
• samba
• semibreve
• semiquaver
• sing
• sounds/ soundscape
• staff notation
• stave
• steps
• styles
• symbols
• syncopated
• tempi/o
• theme
• vocal
• variations