Folk in the Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for Music

This document gives an indication of how folk and traditional music can help teachers enhance and deliver aspects of the National Curriculum for Music in England at Key Stage 3, and suggests a range of supporting resources created by folk artist-educators.

It gives details for Key Stage 3 Music Subject Contents:

• Play and perform confidently in a range of solo and ensemble contexts using their voice, playing instruments musically, fluently and with accuracy and expression
• Improvise and compose; and extend and develop musical ideas by drawing on a range of musical structures, styles, genres and traditions
• Use staff and other relevant notations appropriately and accurately in a range of musical styles, genres and traditions
• Identify and use the inter-related dimensions of music expressively and with increasing sophistication, including use of tonalities, different types of scales and other musical devices
• Listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of music from great composers and musicians
• Develop a deepening understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history