ABSTRACT
The child: • can find a singing voice and join in with singing the melody of
known songs; • can improvise songs or spontaneous singing conversations with
a partner; • can begin to control the voice in simple voice techniques (some
control of breathing, producing a range of different voice sounds, standing well);
• can sing a number of one-liner and other short songs independently;
• responds to instrumental timbre and dynamics and uses these musically;
• can make and perform music using patternings with a variety of instruments;
• can listen with awareness and sort and control sounds made by tuned and untuned instruments;
• responds to music with movement and can match movements to the overall mood, dynamic and tempo of the piece;
• can improvise movements for music work with freedom and imagination, using some variety of movement vocabulary;
• has some skills for music movement work; can stop and start with control, and move in space with awareness for others;
• can give attention to and follow the music; • can respond to music with interest and in a variety of ways; • can pick out some aspects of the music and talk about them; • can make and understand connections between simple
notations and musical sounds.