How singing affects our mood

Music

United by song in the sports arena

Songs uniting a crowd

Celebrating through song

The power of singing together

Singing to affect an audience

This unit investigates the power of music to unite people. Pupils explore how song is used in sacred spaces, sports arenas and live concerts. Pupils study songs with unity as their common theme and use the lyrics to guide an effective, emotive performance.

Singing together: how songs unite us

Which two of the below help us to change the emotion of our singing?

The Post Office Choir, the Dementia Choir, and military choirs are known as what type of choir?

Match what happens in our bodies when we sing to the benefits they have.

how the artist adds emotion to a piece of work that can be felt by the listener

how the artist plays with many instruments

how the artist uses layers of sound to create a thicker texture

Rasa (or ras) is a concept more than 2,000 years old and is written about in the Indian Sanskrit text, the Natya Shastra. What does the concept talk about?

Some choirs call might call the person standing at the front who is in charge of directing the choir a 'choirmaster', or an 'MD' (musical director).  Which term do we use for this person?

a description of how fast the music is playing

a description of the sound or tone of an instrument

a description of how different notes make harmony

a description of how many layers of sound there are in a piece of music

Which of the following explains what timbre means?

a gradual increase in loudness or intensity

a gradual decrease in loudness or intensity

Match the dynamic directions to their meaning.

Sing the first three words of Three Blind Mice. How many different notes do you sing?

Starter Quiz

Some choirs call might call the person standing at the front who is in charge of directing the choir a 'choirmaster', or an 'MD' (musical director). Which term do we use for this person?