Year 2 - Music
Reading graphic scores
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 and play from a simple graphic score.
Key Notes
- Composers can create music that helps us imagine animals, characters or stories.
- Moving to music can help us imagine the stories the composer is trying to tell.
- Music can be notated to share and remember for another day.
- A graphic score is one way of reading notation.
- Percussion instruments can be played in many different ways to create the imagery of an animal or environment.
Vocabulary To Learn
- notate: to write music down
- notation: a way of writing music down
- graphic score: a way of notating music using symbols, shapes or images
- symbol: a mark or drawing that represents something else
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Music is always notated on a score.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Composers can create music that helps us imagine animals, characters or stories. Moving to music can help us imagine the stories the composer is trying to tell.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'notate'
to write music down.
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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