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Year 4

Singing for performance: discovering different ways to sing in harmony

6 lessons

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  • Developing our singing voice
  • Practising and preparing for a performance

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This unit celebrates the many ways of singing in harmony, utilising rounds, partner songs, melodic and rhythmic ostinato and counter melody to create layers of sound. Through short examples, pupils discover how pitches can be combined to make pleasing harmonies.

By this unit, pupils have had plentiful opportunities to sing in parts, beginning with echo and call and response and moving on to rhythmic ostinato, partner songs, and rounds. In this unit, we add melodic ostinato and countermelody to their repertoire of accompaniment types. They are also skilled at holding an instrumental accompaniment whilst singing. By this point, the pupils are ready to hold various parts in a song and are able to begin some early analysis of how different pitches fit together.

  1. Preparing for part work: staying in time and following melodic shape
  2. Preparing for part work: practising songs in rhythm names and solfège
  3. Partner songs and rounds
  4. Rhythmic ostinato and practising rounds
  5. Perform a melodic ostinato
  6. Harmony writing and singing in 2 or 3 parts

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