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- Year 5
Singing to affect an audience
I can perform songs with a clear purpose and conviction to make an audience feel the emotions in a song.
- Year 5
Singing to affect an audience
I can perform songs with a clear purpose and conviction to make an audience feel the emotions in a song.
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Key learning points
- Live performances engage an audience and connects with their emotions more readily than recorded music.
- When we perform, we want to know how we'd like to impact the audience and what feelings and emotions we want to share.
- We can make changes in a live performance to have a great impact on our audience.
- Live performances can help audiences feel a sense of wellbeing and belonging.
Keywords
Live performance - a work that is presented to an audience in real time
Audience - a group of people gathered to listen to and watch a live performance
Common misconception
There's no difference between listening to live music and recorded music.
Many studies have shown that live music has a greater emotional impact on the listener compared to recorded music. The shared experience brings people together and increases the emotional impact of the music.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.A group of people who sing together is called a .
Q2.When we create music in the moment, we are .
Q3.Match the musical element to its definition:
how loud or quiet the music is
the speed of the music - how fast or slow the music is played
a description of the sound or tone of an instrument
the way the music is organised