Early Learning Goals: To understand that ‘texture’ is the layering of sounds. To follow pictorial notation. Starter activity: Listening and Response exercise using the ‘Creepy Crawly Calypso’. The teacher to use different body percussion actions to the pulse, the children to copy the actions moving in time with the pulse. Discuss with the children if they […]
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Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objective: To explore the correlation between pitch and high/low notation. Additional Learning Objectives: To create my own symbols to represent sounds. To define music vocabulary –pitch (HIGH and LOW) and identify the pitch when heard. To keep a beat/respond to a beat. Starter activity: Introduce the vocabulary of pitch (high/middle/low) demonstrating these pitches using […]
Secondary Curriculum – Pathway to a Piece: Lesson 1, Main 2: Examining Scores
Time: 20 minutes Group size: Whole Class Tag words: examine, score, instrument, missing, improvised, harpsichord, continuo, favourite, sections, instrumentation The class now examine the first few pages of the score. Ask the class – “which instruments are there on the score?” “Which instrument is missing?” (Ans: Harpsichord. The part is improvised in this music. Optional: […]