Blue Whale Horns

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Blue Whale composition example

Graceful Giant Blue Whale

Swinging Acrobatic Friendly Ape

Playful Solitary Red Panda

Big White Polar Bear

Whole body warm ups

Echo Body Percussion Rhythms

Don't Clap This One Back

Do As I'm Doing

Ensemble performance from a graphic score

Music

Describing the timbre of instruments

Choosing appropriate percussive timbres to represent an animal

Reading graphic scores

Combining rhythm and timbre

Graphic score notation

In this unit, pupils consider how timbre and rhythm can be used to represent animals. Pupils listen to Wiseman’s Carnival of the Endangered Animals and compare music that represents various animals. They create short pieces, recording these on graphic scores to represent a chosen animal.

Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score

To play successfully as an ensemble, we must first __________ together.

The pattern of sounds that we play and sing is called the {{}}.

A description of an instrument's tone is called its {{}}.

a description of the sound or tone of an instrument

the regular, steady heartbeat of the music

Match the music element to its definition.

Ensemble performance from a graphic score

Lesson outcome