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Year 5

Sing, play, perform: adding tuned accompaniment to part-singing

6 lessons

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  • Playing together in an ensemble
  • Practising and preparing for a performance

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This unit focuses on adding vocal and instrumental layers to songs. Pupils rehearse contrasting songs in parts and become confident holding the pitch and pulse of a line before layering this into four and five part textures with added tuned percussion accompaniments.

By this unit, pupils have sung a range of songs with second parts and are able to hold a melodic ostinato and a second melodic line. In this unit we develop this further by singing songs in two parts whilst also performing simple accompaniments on tuned percussion. Pupils will apply previously taught effective rehearsal strategies when practising and performing songs in this unit. This will support pupils' future ensemble work in which they will begin to layer repetitive cells and contrasting and syncopated rhythms.

  1. Part singing - learning the main melody
  2. Singing in two and three parts
  3. Part singing with a two-note accompaniment
  4. Part singing with a rhythmic ostinato accompaniment
  5. Part singing with a melodic accompaniment
  6. Rehearsing and evaluating an ensemble piece with a thick texture

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