Year 1 - Music
Singing call and response songs
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 a response and know what a call and response song is.
Key Notes
- We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
- We can use our voices to chant and sing together.
- We can sing together or on our own and know when it is our turn to sing.
- We know that a response is an answer to a call and can create different responses to a call.
Vocabulary To Learn
- chant: speaking in time to a pulse
- song: music with words
- echo: an exact copy of a musical phrase
- call and response: a question and answer musical structure
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Echo and call and response are the same.
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 use our voices to chant and sing together.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'chant'
speaking in time to a pulse.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Echo and call and response are the same. Correction: An echo is an exact match of a phrase. A call and response is a question and answer structure in which the response can be different from the call.
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