Key Learning Objective: To complete composing the soundscape and notate on graphic score. Additional Learning Objective: To choose a location and represent it through notated symbols and with a particular dynamic. Starter activity: Revisit ‘Hot Air Balloon song’, focusing on the direction of the melody. Does it move in steps or leaps? Main activity: Recap […]
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Reception, Unit 3, Calypso – Lesson 1
Early Learning Goals: To sort metal and non-metal instruments into two groups. To participate in singing and dancing as part of a group. To understand that music might start in one part of the world and travel to another where it is equally enjoyed. Starter activity: Class activity – create two baskets of instruments sorted […]
Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objectives: To create a soundscape with an identifiable structure. Starter activity: One group to perform their soundscape from the previous lesson. Response to ask why certain aspects of the performance are not the same as the previous lessons performance. Main activity: Introduce the concept of notation, using the idea of a graphic score to […]
Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objectives: To create a soundscape with an identifiable structure. Starter activity: Introduction to the concept of structure, demonstrating its importance through the scenario of a telephone call. Main activity: Create a whole class soundscape of a hot air balloon taking off. Each group to be designated one section of the soundscape structure. Plenary: Performance opportunity, groups […]
Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To explore and understand timbre. Additional Learning Objective: To contribute to creating a soundscape of a hot air balloon preparing to take flight and lifting off the ground. Starter activity: Explore the Bristol Balloon Fiesta, listen to Lin Marsh’s ‘Hot Air Balloon Song’, learning part one of the refrain. Main activity: Create a whole […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objectives: To notate sounds using a graphic score. To compose and perform a piece of music using sampled sound. To compose and perform a motif which suggests a looming effect. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise based on the work ‘Loomings’ by Three Cane Whale. Introduction to the concept of minimal music as […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To explore, recognise and respond to features of a piece of music from the 20th century. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise. Play the clip of ‘Birdsong’, the class will create a ‘bird orchestra’ based on one of the birdsongs from the clip. Main activity: Exploring the piece of music, ‘Oiseaux Exotiques’, written to sound […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objectives: To listen with focus and understanding to a well-known piece of Nationalistic music. To make a personal response through movement or art work to the dramatic mood of the music. To discuss how the inter-related dimensions of music are used to create the dramatic mood. Starter activity: Tell the story ‘The […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: Explore and creatively respond to a well-known piece of music from the Romantic Period. Starter activity: Introduction to instrument families via a virtual tour, focusing in particular on the celeste, cello, flute and bassoon. Main activity: Introduction to Romantic Period Composition, play ‘Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy’, revealing this work to be written […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objectives: To listen and respond to music from the Baroque period. To recognise some of the instruments of the period. Starter activity: Singing exercise, learn ‘Frère Jacques’, introducing the concept of a sung round. Main activity: Introduction to Baroque musical instruments (Pipe Organ, Harpsichord, Lute) and forms (Prelude and Fuge.) Plenary: Voyager Spacecraft – Discuss […]