Whole-body warm-ups

British English CC

Face warm-up

Breathing warm-up

Hey Ho 

The Diggers' Song 

Sir Eglamore

Storytelling through song

Music

How songs tell stories in theatre

Using opera to tell a story

Building and staging a song to tell a story

Ensemble storytelling through song

Sharing stories through performance

This unit develops the skill of storytelling through song. Pupils listen to a range of song styles that have a clear narrative or reveal how a character is feeling. Pupils explore how dynamics, tempo and pitch contribute to how meaning is conveyed using songs from theatre and opera.

Singing together: how stories are shared through song

We {{}} before music lessons to protect our voices from injury.

__________ is a means of sharing songs and stories by passing them down through singing rather than being written down.

Traditional __________ tell stories and have been passed through generations via the oral tradition.

__________ shares West African family history, stories and knowledge through song and poetry via the oral tradition.

sharing music through notation, rather than recordings

sharing music through the spoken word and sound, rather than writing it down

the pattern of sounds and silences that we play and sing

a silence in music of a certain amount of time

The guitar is a type of __________ instrument.

make a percussive musical sound with the body

Storytelling through song

Lesson outcome