Year 2 - Music
Combining rhythm and timbre
Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils consider how timbre and rhythm can be used to represent animals. Pupils listen to Wiseman's Carnival of the Endangered Animals and compare music that represents various animals. They create short pieces, recording these on graphic scores to represent a chosen animal.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to rehearse a rhythm and can choose an instrument, based on its timbre, to perform it on.
Key Notes
- When we chant an animal description we are chanting in a rhythm.
- We can rehearse rhythms to improve and prepare for performance.
- An instrument might be chosen to represent an animal based on its timbre.
- There is no right and wrong when choosing instruments to represent an animal.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rhythm: the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
- rehearse: to practise in order to improve and prepare for performance
- timbre: a description of the sound or tone of an instrument
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Instruments can only create one sound or represent one animal.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
When we chant an animal description we are chanting in a rhythm. We can rehearse rhythms to improve and prepare for performance.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'rhythm'
the pattern of sounds that we play and sing.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Instruments can only create one sound or represent one animal. Correction: There is no right or wrong when choosing instruments for their timbre.
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