Skip to content
Oak National Academy
Oak National Academy
View my library
0
Teachers
Pupils
View unit
Lesson 9 of 13

How can we add interest to a musical structure?

Download all
Share activities with pupils
View unit
Lesson 9 of 13

How can we add interest to a musical structure?

Download all
Share activities with pupils

These resources were made for remote use during the pandemic, not classroom teaching.

Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.

View new resources

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will be able to show how music has a sense of direction, by composing music within a structure.

Licence

This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.

Lesson video

Share with pupils
Skip lesson video

Loading...

Prior knowledge starter quiz

Download quiz pdf
Share with pupils

5 Questions

Q1.
What is a ternary form?

A song with 2 contrasting sections.
Correct answer: A structure with 3 sections - A B A, where B is contrasting.
A structure with a repeating refrain and contrasting episodes.

Q2.
What is rondo form?

A structure commonly used in West African music.
A structure with 3 sections. ABA, where B is contrasting.
Correct answer: A structure with a repeating refrain and contrasting episodes.

Q3.
What structure is ABACA?

Correct answer: Rondo
Song
Ternary

Q4.
What structure is Intro - Verse- Chorus- Outro?

Rondo
Correct answer: Song
Ternary

Q5.
Why is structure important in music?

Correct answer: It gives the music a sense of direction, a beginning, middle and an end.
It means that you can understand the lyrics and chords.
It means the listener can learn the song more easily.

Assessment exit quiz

Download quiz pdf
Share with pupils

5 Questions

Q1.
What is ternary form?

A structure that alternates between a refrain and episodes.
A structure used in pop songs with intro, verse, chorus and outro sections.
Correct answer: A structure with a section (A) that repeats after a contrasting (B) section.

Q2.
How can we turn two sections into a ternary (ABA) form?

Add a C section.
Compose a new section.
Correct answer: Repeat the first A section at the end.

Q3.
What is a 'link' section?

Correct answer: A short part of music that connects one section to another.
A stop signal.
The ropes that connect the skin of the djembe to the wood.

Q4.
How can we add interest to a structure?

Change songs half way through.
Correct answer: Develop the section that repeats.
Remove the B section.

Q5.
Which of the following is not a way to develop a section?

Add or remove notes
Change dynamics
Change sonority
Correct answer: Remove the entire section

Lesson appears in

UnitMusic / West African Music

Music

Show unit