Reading graphic scores
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Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can read and play from a simple graphic score.
Key learning points
- Composers can create music that helps us imagine animals, characters or stories.
- Moving to music can help us imagine the stories the composer is trying to tell.
- Music can be notated to share and remember for another day.
- A graphic score is one way of reading notation.
- Percussion instruments can be played in many different ways to create the imagery of an animal or environment.
Keywords
Notate - to write music down
Notation - a way of writing music down
Graphic score - a way of notating music using symbols, shapes or images
Symbol - a mark or drawing that represents something else
Common misconception
Music is always notated on a score.
Some music is never notated, it is shared by singing and playing. Some notation uses graphic scores, or rhythm grids. Any way of sharing how the music is expected to be played is a form of notation.
Teacher tip
Encourage pupils to explore many different ways one instrument can be played, for example the different sounds created when a nail scrapes a skin versus fingertips gently tapping the skin.
Equipment
A variety of classroom percussion. A box with a lid that can fit multiple instruments inside.
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