Year 1 - Music
Singing with character and feeling
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 respond to and sing songs that have different feelings or moods.
Key Notes
- Music can make us feel different emotions and we can show this in our singing.
- We can change the character and feeling of our voice to create different moods in a song.
- We can use our faces and bodies to emhpasise the mood or character of a song when singing.
Vocabulary To Learn
- singing: creating musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
- actions: movements and facial expressions to do while singing a song
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Singing in a loud or cross tone involves shouting.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Music can make us feel different emotions and we can show this in our singing. We can change the character and feeling of our voice to create different moods in a song.
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: Singing in a loud or cross tone involves shouting. Correction: You can sing loudly and sound cross without shouting. Think of singing strongly, rather than loud to help you to do this.
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