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 […]
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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 1, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: To create symbols that represent musical sounds and notate them as a graphic score. Additional Learning Objective: To feel and internalise the pulse in the context of an action songs. Starter activity: Warm up using the song, ‘John Kanaka’, listen to the performance track until everyone is familiar with the melody. Main […]