Year 1 - Music
Reading simple rhythms
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 read and chant four beat rhythms.
Key Notes
- Many of the songs and games we play have a call and response structure.
- When we chant and clap to a steady pulse, we are chanting a rhythm.
- We clap on each syllable of the chant to create a rhythm.
- For these fruit chants, our one syllable words can be written as Ta and our two syllable words as Ta-di.
Vocabulary To Learn
- call and response: a question and answer musical structure
- rhythm: the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
- chant: speaking in time to a pulse
- syllable: a part of a word
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Responses are always the same in call and response songs.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Many of the songs and games we play have a call and response structure. When we chant and clap to a steady pulse, we are chanting a rhythm.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'call and response'
a question and answer musical structure.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Responses are always the same in call and response songs. Correction: The response can be different every time. The call can also be different. Call and response can be any kind of back and forth musical conversation.
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