A Keelie Makolay

Alive Alert Awake - backing

British English CC

Alive Alert Awake

Get Your Body Moving

Crooked Castle - piano backing only 

Crooked Castle

Warm-ups

Controlling dynamic changes within a song

Music

Strong and soft singing

How singing softly makes me feel

Singing stronger and feeling energised

Following a leader to change dynamics

Changing dynamics to perform with feeling

This unit demonstrates how singing quietly and loudly can change the feel of the song. Pupils listen to music with changing dynamics and think about how it makes them feel. Lullabies and upbeat songs are sung in contrast to each other to identify when calmer or livelier singing is most effective.

Singing together: how singing makes me feel

True or false? We can change our dynamics in a song, getting louder or getting quieter.

A __________ uses gestures to tell a choir what to do.

This conductor is asking the choir to sing {{}}.

When we __________ we use our voice to create musical sounds that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds.

When we sing together, we feel the __________ to help us stay in time.

Match the mood of the song to how we might want to sing it.

We can sing songs with louder or quieter {{}}.

Exit Quiz

True or false? We can change our dynamics in a song, getting louder or getting quieter.