Key Learning Objectives: To follow a graphic score To know that staccato means detached. To recognise repeated rhythmic patterns. To compose and perform melodic phrases. Listening focus: Listening and response exercise, based on the work ‘Fossils’ by Camille Saint-Saëns, the twelfth movement of the musical suite ‘Carnival of the Animals’. Main activity: Focus on the rhythm of the main theme, noticing […]
Tag: Composition
Year 4, Unit 2: Rhythm – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objectives: To further develop my understanding of notation. To explore texture and pulse by playing rhythms simultaneously in an ensemble. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Card Starter Bank. Main activity: Use the Lego notation sets and the Rhythm fraction walls to allow each child to compose a four beat rhythm. Incorporate […]
Year 4, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To interpret symbols as musical sounds. Additional Learning Objective: To select instruments and explore the timbre of the instruments in order to represent aspects of a storm. Starter activity: Watch the BBC Ten Pieces film for Benjamin Britten’s ‘The Storm’ from the opera ‘Peter Grimes’. Explain that the class will be using it […]
Year 4, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objective: To interpret symbols as musical sounds. Additional Learning Objective: To select instruments and explore the timbre of the instruments in order to represent aspects of a storm. Starter activity: Watch the BBC Ten Pieces film for Benjamin Britten’s ‘The Storm’ from the opera ‘Peter Grimes’. Explain that the class will be using it […]
Year 3, Unit 2: Junk Percussion – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objectives: To explore timbre, texture and rhythm using everyday items as instruments. To listen to and repeat a variety of rhythms using instruments. To play in an ensemble and develop ensemble and listening skills. To explore experimental music by composing rhythms. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main […]
Year 3, Unit 2: Junk Percussion – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To explore timbre using everyday items as instruments. To listen to and repeat a variety of rhythms using instruments. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main activity: Watch the provided videos from ‘Stomp’ the musical and discuss unusual aspects of the performance, focusing on choice of instrumentation and […]
Year 3, Unit 2: Junk Percussion – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objectives: To compose and play rhythms including rests. To understand how rests are notated. To begin to notate rhythms including rests. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main activity: Recap the symbol for a crotchet (quarter note) rest. Pupils to tip cups to create a 4 beat rhythm and […]
Year 3, Unit 2: Junk Percussion – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objectives: To understand that rhythm is a pattern made of notes of different lengths. To understand that rests are beats of silence. To play and compose rhythms that use rests. Starter activity: Introduce the concept of rests using four cups to represent four beats. The cups are positioned to either represent a sounded […]
Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 5
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 […]
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 […]