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- Year 2
Building a thicker texture with a chanted ostinato
I can keep a rhythmic, chanted ostinato going under a song.
- Year 2
Building a thicker texture with a chanted ostinato
I can keep a rhythmic, chanted ostinato going under a song.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Short rhythmic patterns can be repeated to create an ostinato accompaniment for a chant or song.
- The more layers of sound in a piece of music, the thicker the texture.
- Beats are organised into patterns of strong beats and weak beats.
- When the tempo gets faster, we need to chant and sing faster.
- When the tempo gets slower we need to chant and sing slower.
Keywords
Chant - speaking in time to a pulse
Sing - the voice we use to create musical sounds that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
Rhythm - the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
Ostinato - a repeating musical pattern
Texture - the layering of different musical sounds
Common misconception
The pulse and steady beat always stays the same.
If the tempo changes, the pulse will change too!
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