She'll be Coming Round the Mountain (vocals)

British English CC

She'll be Coming Round the Mountain (piano accompaniment)

When the Train Comes Along

To Stop the Train (video)

To Stop the Train (audio)

Freedom Train (with ostinato layers)

Freedom train (original)

My Journey Song (vocals) 

Dr Knickerbocker (piano accompaniment)

Dr Knickerbocker (audio)

Dr Knickerbocker (video)

Slowly, Slowly (video)

Warm-up sequence

My Journey Song (piano accompaniment) 

Building a thicker texture with a sung ostinato

Music

Developing pulse and moving in time to the music

Adding body percussion to a song

Building a thicker texture with a chanted ostinato

Developing part singing

Performing songs with simple accompaniments

In this unit pupils add simple vocal accompaniments to songs. They learn chanted and sung ostinati, adding these to songs they have learnt. Pupils practise in order to improve and understand the importance of maintaining a steady pulse.

Singing for performance: adding a simple vocal accompaniment

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

What makes a sung ostinato different from a chanted ostinato?

the playing or showing of the steady pulse like the ticking of a clock

how loud or quiet the music is played or sung

the regular, steady heartbeat of the music

Match the musical element to its definition.

True or false? We should use a strong singing voice every time we sing to show we are enjoying music.

The {{}} is the regular steady heartbeat of the music.

using the body to create percussive musical sounds

using the voice to sing improvised sounds

using instruments to make percussive musical sounds

Which word means we are all singing the same thing together?

to make the music fuller and more interesting

Why might we add an ostinato underneath a song?

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Building a thicker texture with a sung ostinato

Lesson outcome

Content guidance

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.