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Year 5 Music Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Compose and Create: composing a minor melody on a stave
- Composing and notating a minor melody Study Guide
- Identifying major and minor tonalities Study Guide
- Minor melodies and the minor pentachord Study Guide
- Reading and performing minor melodies Study Guide
- Reading and playing minor melodies Study Guide
- Reading the five note minor pentachord scale Study Guide
Compose and rehearse: creating and combining minimalist cells
- Adding more minimalist cells to create a thicker texture Study Guide
- Building a minimalist piece Study Guide
- Creating and notating a repeating minimalist cell Study Guide
- Notating a minimalist piece Study Guide
- Rehearsing, performing and appraising a minimalist performance Study Guide
- The key features of minimalism Study Guide
Playing together: discovering different vocal timbres
- Evaluating and performing a beatboxing film score Study Guide
- Improvising a beatboxing film score Study Guide
- Improvising using beatboxing techniques and vocal sounds inspired by nature Study Guide
- Introducing beatboxing vocal percussion Study Guide
- Layering beatboxing vocal percussion sounds Study Guide
- Rehearsing a texture of two or more parts Study Guide
Sing, play, perform: adding tuned accompaniment to part-singing
- Layering part-singing: adding a three note melody Study Guide
- Part singing: adding a rhythmic ostinato accompaniment Study Guide
- Part singing: rounds and partner songs Study Guide
- Rehearsing and evaluating an ensemble piece with a thick texture Study Guide
- Singing and playing simultaneously: three note melodies Study Guide
- Two-part singing: rounds and partner songs Study Guide
Singing for performance: syncopation in songs
- Creating and rehearsing a syncopated performance - building a tight ensemble Study Guide
- Layering syncopated rhythms to accompany a song Study Guide
- Singing and playing syncopated rhythms Study Guide
- Syncopated rhythms in jazz Study Guide
- Syncopation performance and reflection Study Guide
- What is syncopation? Study Guide