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Year 2

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

6 lessons

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  • Creating, composing and improvising
  • Notating and sharing music
  • Playing together in an ensemble

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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.

This unit utilises known rhythmic patterns to structure pupils’ composition work. Pupils’ understanding of timbre is deepened and they begin to understand that timbre is just one of the musical elements that can help to build a picture and tell a story. Graphic score is introduced as another method for recording musical ideas, and pupils’ combine this with known stick notation icons to read and play musical ideas. Ternary form (ABA structure) is introduced here and returned to later in the year.

  1. Describing the timbre of instruments
  2. Choosing appropriate percussive timbres to represent an animal
  3. Reading graphic scores
  4. Combining rhythm and timbre
  5. Graphic score notation
  6. Ensemble performance from a graphic score
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