Year 1 - Music
Singing and identifying echo and call and response
Start with singing: finding my singing voice
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Unit Summary
This unit helps pupils to discover the difference between their speaking, or chanting, and singing voice. Through a diverse range of echo and call and response songs pupils will begin to pitch match songs that use an age appropriate small range of notes.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to sing your part in our songs and know the difference between echo and call and response.
Key Notes
- We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
- We can move in time to the music and know that pulse is the regular, steady heartbeat of the music.
- We can identify both echo and call and response song structures.
Vocabulary To Learn
- pulse: the regular, steady heartbeat of the music
- echo: an exact copy of a musical phrase
- call and response: a question and answer musical structure
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pulse, beat and rhythm are the same thing.
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. We can move in time to the music and know that pulse is the regular, steady heartbeat of the music.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'pulse'
the regular, steady heartbeat of the music.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pulse, beat and rhythm are the same thing. Correction: Pulse is the regular heartbeat of the music. Rhythm is the pattern of sounds and silences of differing durations.
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