Year 1 - Music
Chants and songs with a call and response structure
Compose and create: high and low melodic responses
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Unit Summary
This unit uses a simple call and response song and a theming around fruit to inspire short compositions. Pupils learn two rhythms (Ta and Ta-di) and two notes (so and mi) and combine these to create fruit-inspired compositions which they perform as part of the call and response song.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to sing and identify call and response structures in chants and songs.
Key Notes
- We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
- Many of the songs and games we play have a call and response structure.
- Call and response chants and songs are found all around the world.
- Instrumental music can have a call and response structure too.
- Call and response is a question and answer musical structure.
Vocabulary To Learn
- warm up: a sequence of exercises used to prepare the mind, body and voice for singing
- call and response: a question and answer musical structure
- structure: the way the music or song is organised
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Call and response is a singing structure.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing. Many of the songs and games we play have a call and response structure.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'warm up'
a sequence of exercises used to prepare the mind, body and voice for singing.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Call and response is a singing structure. Correction: The call and response structure can be found in songs, chants and instrumental music in musical styles all around the world.
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