Year 5
To structure a piece of music
Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will structure our own piece of music based on the Planet Suite by Gustav Holst and use homemade instruments to perform it.
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5 Questions
Q1.
What does 'Call and Response' mean?
A repeated pattern or phrase
The use of a telephone in orchestral music
Q2.
Who wrote the music to West Side Story?
C.P.E. Bach
P. Lott
Q3.
What does ostinato mean?
A loud melody
Something played only by percussion instruments
Q4.
At various points in the piece, the musicians shout ‘Mambo’. How would you describe the relationship between the instruments and the voice at these points?
An ostinato
Unrelated
Q5.
Which junk percussion instrument represented the claves?
Bottle filled with grains of rice
Saucepans
5 Questions
Q1.
Which country is Sambalele from?
Australia
India
Q2.
What does call and response mean in music?
When musicians are allowed to use their mobile phones in rehearsal
When musicians use their voices instead of their instruments
Q3.
What is a polyrhythm?
A repeated pattern or phrase
A type of parrot
Q4.
What are dynamics?
Dancers
They determine the speed of the music
Q5.
Which of these means 'loud'?
piano
