Year 6
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will warm-up our bodies and voices with a song called 'Shabuya!'. We will explore Holst's 'Mars: Bringer of War' from The Planets Suite and discover why his music for this movement really did sound so ominous and menacing. We will then learn some of the ostinato patterns from this movement followed by doing some composition of our own.
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5 Questions
Q1.
What was the name of our warm-up song?
Not so fast!
Not so steady!
Q2.
What do we call musical metre in which beats can be simply halved or quartered?
Compound time
Dinner time
Q3.
Which of these tracks is not in simple time?
Happy - Pharrell Williams
I will wait - Mumford and Sons
Q4.
Which of these time signatures is not compound time
12/8
6/8
Q5.
What is compound time?
musical metre in which each beat can be split into two equal units
time to eat dinner
5 Questions
Q1.
What activity did the lesson begin with?
Composing
Not so simple!
Q2.
What is the pulse?
The length of the music
The speed of the music
Q3.
How could you describe the metre of Mars: Bringer of War?
Common time
Compound
Q4.
Who wrote The Planets suite?
Beethoven
Mozart
Q5.
How could you best describe the feeling of irregular metre?
Even
Usual