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Year 4

Singing together: how stories are shared through song

6 lessons

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  • Developing our singing voice
  • Music over time and in different places
  • Notating and sharing music

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This unit develops the skill of storytelling through song. Pupils listen to a range of song styles that have a clear narrative or reveal how a character is feeling. Pupils explore how dynamics, tempo and pitch contribute to how meaning is conveyed using songs from theatre and opera.

By now, pupils have sung songs that help them to express themselves, that have been used as working songs and that bring communities together. We continue to develop our questioning of why we sing by introducing singing to tell a story. This unit allows pupils to make connections between the musical elements of dynamics, pitch and tempo and the emotion or story the song is conveying. This prepares pupils for later units in which we understand the power of song for unity and for protest. Singing in unison here is a stepping stone to combining storytelling and part singing together.

  1. Storytelling through song
  2. Songs that enhance a story
  3. Comparing storytelling performance styles
  4. Conveying emotion through song
  5. Ensemble storytelling through song
  6. Sharing stories through performance

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