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Year 2 - Music

Playing within an ABA musical structure

Compose and create: improvising with four notes

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils use a baking theme to replicate and improvise four note melodies. Pupils read and reorder known rhythm patterns and use these to improvise on pitched percussion within their four note toneset. A final performance in ABA structure is created.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to use the do, mi, so and la to play within an ABA structure.

Key Notes

  • Music is organised in different ways. This is called structure.
  • Call and response and ABA are examples of musical structure.
  • Musical structure can help make music more interesting and memorable.
  • When we perform within an ABA structure, there is a B section which is different than the A section.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • structure: the way the music is organised
  • call and response: a question and answer musical structure
  • rhythm: the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
  • melody: a combination of notes to make a memorable tune
  • compose: to create music

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • When we compose music we always notate it using a stave.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Music is organised in different ways. This is called structure. Call and response and ABA are examples of musical structure.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'structure'

the way the music is organised.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: When we compose music we always notate it using a stave. Correction: Using stick notation with the notes written underneath is a quick way to notate simple melodies.

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