Year 4 - Music
Sharing stories through performance
Singing together: how stories are shared through song
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Unit Summary
This unit develops the skill of storytelling through song. Pupils listen to a range of song styles that have a clear narrative or reveal how a character is feeling. Pupils explore how dynamics, tempo and pitch contribute to how meaning is conveyed using songs from theatre and opera.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to share a story through song by performing in character.
Key Notes
- Performing is sharing our best work with an audience to entertain them.
- We can convey stories and meanings of songs by the way we sing and perform them.
- Warming up effectively helps us to be ready to perform
- We can put our song in context by using a script
- Reflecting on our performance help us see how we are developing as musicians and performers.
Vocabulary To Learn
- performance: a work that is presented to an audience
- script: the written text containing the story of a play, musical or film
- round: a song structure where multiple groups sing the same melody but start at different times
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once we've performed, then we've finished and don't need to carry on reflecting on our work.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Performing is sharing our best work with an audience to entertain them. We can convey stories and meanings of songs by the way we sing and perform them.
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: Once we've performed, then we've finished and don't need to carry on reflecting on our work. Correction: Watching a performance back, and/or reflecting on our performance is useful because it gives us an opportunity to realise and appreciate the various skills we've been learning, using and building on. We can also see what we'd do better next tiime.
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