Year 2 - Music
Graphic score notation
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 use symbols to write your animal sounds on a graphic score.
Key Notes
- Music can be notated to share and remember for another day.
- A graphic score is one way of reading and writing notation.
- Graphic scores need to be clear and simple symbols, not pictures.
- An instrument might be chosen to represent an animal based on its timbre.
- Percussion instruments can be played in many different ways to create the imagery of an animal or environment.
Vocabulary To Learn
- composer: a person who creates music
- notation: a way of writing music down
- graphic score: a way of writing down music using symbols, shapes or images
- timbre: a description of the sound or tone of an instrument
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Music is always notated on a score.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Music can be notated to share and remember for another day. A graphic score is one way of reading and writing notation.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'composer'
a person who creates music.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Music is always notated on a score. Correction: Some music is never notated, it is shared by singing and playing. Some notation uses graphic scores, or rhythm grids. Any way of sharing how the music is expected to be played is a form of notation.
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