Year 2 - Music
Singing to help us work in time together
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 sing songs with a steady pulse and know that this can help us to work together in time.
Key Notes
- We warm up before every music lesson to make sure that our minds, bodies and voices are ready.
- Sea shanties have a steady pulse that is sounded as a strong beat. This helped sailors to work together in time.
- This strong beat stays the same. It does not get slower or faster. This helped sailors to all move together.
- Rhythm is the pattern of notes that we play and sing and follows the syllables of the words. It is different to pulse.
Vocabulary To Learn
- 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
- rhythm: the pattern of notes that we play and sing
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 before every music lesson to make sure that our minds, bodies and voices are ready. Sea shanties have a steady pulse that is sounded as a strong beat. This helped sailors to work together in time.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'sea shanty'
a traditional folk song sung by sailors to help them work together in time.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pulse and rhythm are the same thing. Correction: Pulse is the regular, steady heartbeat of the music. We can feel the pulse and this sometimes makes us want to move or tap along to the pulse. Rhythm is the pattern of notes that we play and sing. Rhythm follows the syllables of the words in a song.
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