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 […]
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Secondary Curriculum – Pathway to a Piece: Lesson 1, Main 1: Active Bach Listening
Time: 15 minutes Group size: Whole Class/Individual Tag words: solo, violins, orchestra, notation, changes, texture, chords, structure, sketch, blocks, colours Play the class the first movement of Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor. Tell the pupils that the piece is for two solo violins and a string orchestra. Watch with the animated notation: […]