Responding to tempo changes within a song or piece of music
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Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can hear tempo changes in a piece of music and can respond by moving in time to the beat.
Key learning points
- Tempo can change within a piece of music.
- Movement can help us to feel, show and hear the changing tempo.
- We know a piece of music can speed up (accelerando) or slow down (rallentando).
- When the tempo changes within a piece of music, it changes how the music feels and helps us create stories in our mind.
Keywords
Tempo - how fast or slow the music is played
Accelerando - gradually getting faster
Rallentando - gradually getting slower
Common misconception
The tempo always stays the same throughout a piece of music.
Although we learn to feel the pulse and follow the steady beat, music can get gradually faster or gradually slower.
Teacher tip
Try not to model singing louder as the music gets faster and singing quiet as the music gets slower as this can embed another misconception.
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