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Compose and create: high and low melodic responses

6 lessons

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  • Creating, composing and improvising
  • Notating and sharing music
  • Playing together in an ensemble
  • Practising and preparing for a performance

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This unit uses a simple call and response song and a theming around fruit to inspire short compositions. Pupils learn two rhythms (Ta and Ta-di) and two notes (so and mi) and combine these to create fruit-inspired compositions which they perform as part of the call and response song.

This unit introduces the pupils to the concept of pitch (high and low, so and mi) through the call and response structure they know well. Building on earlier rhythmic composition work, pupils use their understanding of syllables and known fruit names to build four beat rhythms. Stick notation is introduced to represent the rhythms Ta and Ta-di which the pupils experienced in earlier compositions. This is a precursor for understanding staff notation. The two pitches (so, mi) are shown as higher and lower which is a building block for understanding how pitch can be notated.

  1. Chants and songs with a call and response structure
  2. Reading simple rhythms
  3. Identifying high and low notes
  4. Composing a four beat rhythm
  5. Composing a simple high and low melody
  6. Performing a simple melody as part of a call and response song
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