In this sixth book of the series the authors build upon the lower junior stage, and use an similar modular format. Designed to extend skill acquisition in performance, improvising and composing, listening and appraising, and notating music, pupils are challanged by increasingly demanding musical materials. At the same time there is an emphasis on pupils acquiring knowledge and expertise of the deep structures of a range of music, and a greater acknowledgement of musical purpose and context. Attuned to the range of National Curriculum experiences, particular features of this book are: a consolidation and deepening of vocal and instrumental techniques and performance; an integrated approach to improvising and composing, combining skills in listening and appraising, knowledge and understanding; a module focusing on aural observation, representation, recording and notation of sound; an active, analytical and frequently physical approach to listening and appraising; a focus on music in its social and historical context in relation to dance.

Introduction
MODULE 1: SINGING AND PERFORMING: Performance and presentation skills; song structures and styles, etc.
Singing and performing
Rounds old and new
Altering tradition
Introducing light opera
Creating an atmosphere on stage
Revision lesson: performing
MODULE 2: PLAYING AND PERFORMING: Vocal and instrumental work; metre and rhythms; melody and accompaniment, etc.
Born on earth is the Holy Child
The twelve days of Christmas
The National Anthem
Piece to swing to
Patterns in music
Revision and extension
MODULE 3: IMPROVISING AND COMPOSING: Style, mood and expression; listening, performing and composing
Deck the halls
One man went to mow
Erlkönig (The Erl King)
The elements
The fairground
The seasons
MODULE 4: UNDERSTANDING TECHNICAL ASPECTS: Pitch, duration and dynamics; technical and scientific aspects of music; analysing sounds, etc.
The octave
Notating pitch and duration
Recording loud and soft sounds
Ascending and descending pitches
Duration
Responding and describing
MODULE 5: LISTENING AND APPRAISING: Understanding character and mood in relation to musical elements
March of the Pilgrims
Give me five
Simple gifts
Ode to joy
Grasshoppers three
Music shall live
MODULE 6: MUSIC AND DANCE: Exploring rhythms, style and dances in cultural context; inventinf dance staps; notation, etc.
Music and dance: an introduction
The hornpipe
Funky siding
Greek style
The waltz
Revision lesson
CD track listing