Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score
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Why this why now
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils have experience of chanting and clapping rhythms in time.
- Pupils have experienced creating and clapping their own simple rhythms using text to support.
- Pupils have explored a range of tuned and untuned classroom percussion.
- Pupils understand pitch as how high or low the sound is.
- Pupils have some experience of identifying and using larger instruments for lower sounds and smaller instruments for higher sounds.
- Pupils have experience of using appropriate words to describe sounds or the timbre of an instrument.
- Pupils understand that music can be ‘notated’ and have previously used manipulatives, flashcards, images and/or stick notation to compose.
Threads
Why this why now
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils have experience of chanting and clapping rhythms in time.
- Pupils have experienced creating and clapping their own simple rhythms using text to support.
- Pupils have explored a range of tuned and untuned classroom percussion.
- Pupils understand pitch as how high or low the sound is.
- Pupils have some experience of identifying and using larger instruments for lower sounds and smaller instruments for higher sounds.
- Pupils have experience of using appropriate words to describe sounds or the timbre of an instrument.
- Pupils understand that music can be ‘notated’ and have previously used manipulatives, flashcards, images and/or stick notation to compose.
Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score
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.
6 lessons in unit
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