Year 2 - Music
Creating an ostinato to help us keep in time
Singing together: how singing helps us work together
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils explore how songs are used for work, productivity, and collaboration. It focuses on working songs at sea. Pupils learn that call and response is a structure found in many sea-working songs and that a strong sense of pulse is essential for completing tasks together.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create a rhythmic ostinato to help us keep in time together.
Key Notes
- An ostinato is a repeated musical pattern.
- Playing an ostinato to a strong beat can help us to sing and play in time together.
- We can create our own rhythmic ostinato to help us to keep in time together.
- We can combine different layers of sound to create texture, such as playing different ostinati at the same time.
Vocabulary To Learn
- pulse: the regular, steady heartbeat of the music
- beat: the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock
- rhythm: the pattern of notes that we play and sing
- ostinato: a repeating musical pattern
- texture: the layering of different musical sounds
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- An ostinato, like the rhythm of a song, changes throughout a piece of music.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
An ostinato is a repeated musical pattern. Playing an ostinato to a strong beat can help us to sing and play in time together.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'pulse'
the regular, steady heartbeat of the music.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: An ostinato, like the rhythm of a song, changes throughout a piece of music. Correction: An ostinato does have a rhythm, but this rhythm is repeated over and over again throughout a piece of music. The rhythm stays exactly the same.
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