Year 1 - Music
Responding to different musical moods
Singing for performance: Changing tempo and dynamics in our songs
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Unit Summary
This unit teaches performance skills as well as how to change the tempo and dynamics of our singing to reflect different moods. Pupils will learn to warm up their voices, sing songs with different feelings and moods, and prepare and deliver effective vocal performances.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to listen carefully and share ideas about how music makes you feel.
Key Notes
- We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
- Music can make us feel different emotions like happy, sad, sleepy or excited.
- We can show different feelings in our singing with our voice, face and body.
Vocabulary To Learn
- singing: creating musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
- warm up: a sequence of exercises used to prepare the mind, body and voice for singing
- lyrics: the words of a song
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Everybody responds to music in the same way
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. Music can make us feel different emotions like happy, sad, sleepy or excited.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'singing'
creating musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Everybody responds to music in the same way. Correction: While there are common musical features that makes a song sound happy, sad or scary, these are not always experienced in the same way. One person may find a song calm, wheras another may find it sad.
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