Year 2 - Music
Ensemble performance from a graphic score
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 read your graphic score and play your part in an ABA composition.
Key Notes
- It is important to rehearse as an ensemble in order to perform together successfully.
- Structure is the way the music is organised.
- ABA is a musical sandwich structure.
- Our composition and a chant we know, Do as I Do, have an ABA structure.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rhythm: the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
- ensemble: a group of people who perform together
- perform: presenting our work in front of others
- rehearse: to practise in order to improve and prepare for performance
- structure: the way the music is organised
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- You can practise on your own and then you will play together successfully as an ensemble.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
It is important to rehearse as an ensemble in order to perform together successfully. Structure is the way the music is organised.
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: You can practise on your own and then you will play together successfully as an ensemble. Correction: It is important to rehearse as an ensemble in order to perform successfully.
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