Key Learning Objective: To compose a rhythmic ostinato inspired by engine sounds. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise based on the provided clip of Titanic’s engine audio. Identify a repeated rhythm that occurs over and over again, pupils to tap one of these rhythms out. Main activity: Collect words or phrases based on the engine sounds […]
Tag: Rhythmic Ostinato
Year 5, Unit 2: Trains – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To compose/notate a rhythm to illustrate an aspect of a train journey. To read and perform a number of notated rhythms. To maintain a rhythmic line and a rhythmic ostinato in an ensemble. Starter activity: Choose one of the pulse / rhythm games from the rhythm activity sheet. Main activities: Activity one: Revise […]
Year 5, Unit 2: Trains – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objectives: To read and perform a rhythm from musical notation. To compose lyrics within a given meter. Starter activity: Choose one of the activities from the rhythm starter bank. Main activities: Activity one:Listening and response exercise based on the work, ‘Etude Aux Chemins de Fer’ by the French composer Pierre Schaeffer. Activity two: […]
Year 5, Unit 2: Trains – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objectives: To explore more complex rhythms and to create an ostinato. To notate a rhythmic ostinato. To add lyrics to match the ostinato rhythm. Starter activity: Choose one of the activities from the rhythm starter bank. Main activities: Introduce the concept of a tone poem through watching Honnnger’s ‘Pacific 231.’ Pupils to write down words […]
Year 5, Unit 2: Trains – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objective: To learn and maintain a complex rhythmic ostinato. Starter activity: Choose one of the activities from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main activities: Activity one: Revise what an ostinato is whilst re-listening to ‘Bolero’. Pupils to clap the ostinato and look at the rhythm cards, noticing the triplets. Activity two: Sing through ‘The Greatest Railway’, […]
Year 5, Unit 2: Trains – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objectives: To feel the pulse and identify an ostinato. To learn a traditional song. To improvise actions to the pulse/ beat. Starter activity: Choose one of the pulse or rhythm activities from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main activity: Listening and response activity using the song ‘Filimioomiooriay’. Ask the pupils to pat their knees to the pulse/beat […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To keep a steady pulse and to play rhythms together. Additional Learning Objectives: To feel the pulse whilst listening and internalise the pulse through movement. To build an understanding of the pulse and its role as the foundation of music. Begin to understand that rhythms are patterns of long and short sounds. The […]
Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To read and perform a four bar notated rhythm. Starter activity: Pupils select favourite warm up song to focus their voices, bodies and brains. Main activity: Using a selection of untuned percussion instruments, children chant the animal rhythms and then play on their instruments, reinforcing a four-bar rhythm. Plenary: Revisit ‘Zebra Crossing’, incorporating a game […]
Year 1, Unit 2: Animal Rhythms – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To compose and perform a four beat rhythm. To use this as a rhythmic ostinato. Starter activity: Revision of the song, ‘Tony Chestnut.’ Main activity: Revision of the rhythm picture cards, followed by revision of the term ‘ostinato’ and the creation of a four-bar rhythm using the animal pictures. Plenary: Revisit ‘This Train is […]