Year 2 - Music
Singing to achieve a task
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 understand that singing can be used to help achieve a task.
Key Notes
- We warm up our body and mind before singing so that we are focused and ready.
- Sea shanties were sung by sailors all around the world to help them to achieve a task.
- Sea shanties often have a steady pulse that is sounded as a strong beat. This helps sailors work together in time.
- We can feel the pulse and hear the beat in sea shanties and can use this to help us move together.
Vocabulary To Learn
- warm up: a sequence of exercises used to prepare the mind, body and voice for singing
- sea shanty: a traditional folk song sung by sailors to help them work together in time
- pulse: the regular, steady heartbeat of the music
- beat: the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock
- call and response: a question and answer musical structure
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pulse and rhythm are the same thing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
We warm up our body and mind before singing so that we are focused and ready. Sea shanties were sung by sailors all around the world to help them to achieve a task.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'warm up'
a sequence of exercises used to prepare the mind, body and voice for singing.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pulse and rhythm are the same thing. Correction: Pulse is the regular, steady heartbeat of the music. Rhythm is the pattern of notes that we play and sing. It will follow the syllables of the words we sing. Pulse is the underlying feeling of uniformed beats.
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