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Year 5

Compose and Create: composing a minor melody on a stave

6 lessons

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  • Creating, composing and improvising
  • Notating and sharing music

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In this unit, pupils learn songs and listen to music that has a minor tonality. Pupils learn the toneset for the minor pentachord (la, ti, do, re, mi) and use this to compose a minor melody. An analysis of Benjamin Britten’s Old Abram Brown inspires the shaping of the pupils' compositions.

Prior to this unit, pupils have sung songs, heard music and composed using the major key, an Indian raag and a pentatonic scale. Pupils have also sung songs and heard music in the minor key. They are now in a position to play and compose using a third five-note scale, the minor pentachord. The pupils will use their knowledge of these different scales and tonalities when improvising in later units and composing variations on a theme.

  1. Major and minor tonalities
  2. Minor melodies and the minor pentachord
  3. Reading the five note minor pentachord scale
  4. Reading and playing minor melodies
  5. Composing and notating a minor melody
  6. Reading and performing minor melodies

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