Year 3 - Music
Performing together as a school community
Singing together: how songs are used in communities
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Unit Summary
Pupils learn that singing often draws communities together to tell stories, comment on history, share happy or sad times and to worship. Through rehearsing and performing a range of songs, pupils explore how different songs capture different emotions.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to choose appropriate dynamics and use your voice in different ways to create a powerful performance for an audience.
Key Notes
- Singing together can make both the performers and the audience feel joyful and connected.
- To create a powerful performance, we should stand and breathe like a singer.
- All music starts and ends with silence. Stand silent and still at the beginning and end of a performance.
- We can capture a song's character by using our voices in different ways and choosing dynamics carefully.
Vocabulary To Learn
- performance: a work that is presented to an audience
- piano: a musical direction to play softly at a quieter volume
- forte: a musical direction to play strongly at a louder volume
- crescendo: a gradual increase in loudness or intensity
- audience: a group of people gathered to listen to and watch a performance
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Creating a performance is the same as singing together in our normal music lessons/there is no difference between singing together and creating a performance.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Singing together can make both the performers and the audience feel joyful and connected. To create a powerful performance, we should stand and breathe like a singer.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'performance'
a work that is presented to an audience.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Creating a performance is the same as singing together in our normal music lessons/there is no difference between singing together and creating a performance. Correction: When we perform we are sharing our work with an audience. We need to use our performing skills such as standing like a singer and capturing a song's character using our voices to communicate the meaning of the song to the audience.
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