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Year 6

Compose and Create: creating melodic variations based on a theme

6 lessons

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  • Creating, composing and improvising
  • Music over time and in different places
  • Notating and sharing music
  • Practising and preparing for a performance

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In this unit, pupils will compose short variations on a given simple theme using glockenspiels or online keyboards on tablets or laptops. Exploring examples of theme and variations such as 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' will create an understanding of how this structure is formed.

This unit is a culmination of all compositing skills learnt during key stages 1 and 2. The pupils bring to this their knowledge of tonality, including major, minor, pentatonic and a set raag. They understand music can be structured and have used structures including call and response and ternary for example. They understand various ways to notate music including rhythm grids and simplified staves. They are now able to explore the creation of variations using all their musical knowledge and skills to date.

  1. Theme and variation as a musical structure
  2. Learning a musical theme
  3. Composing a rhythmic variation to a theme
  4. Composing a melodic variation to a theme
  5. Composing a third variation to a theme
  6. Practising and performing composed variations on a theme

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