Traditional Kenyan folk songs and Renaissance motets frame Grade 10 Music and Dance in Term 3, allocating 41 periods across 10 pages, guiding learners through musical structures, instrumentation, and social contexts.
- Kenyan Folk Traditions: evaluating soloist improvisation, call-and-response choruses, melodic pitch contours, and syncopated drumming during weeks 1 and 2.
- Western Early Music: exploring Medieval Gregorian chants, polyphonic sacred masses, and Renaissance secular madrigals across weeks 3 and 4.
- Socio-Cultural Roles: examining traditional dances performed during rites of passage, weddings, and national celebrations in weeks 5 and 6.
- Ensemble Performances: staging vocal folk numbers, scoring dance critiques, and submitting recorded items in weeks 8 and 9.
Assessment involves mid-term theory tests in week 7 and practical performing arts auditions in week 9.
