Year 6 - Music
Characterful singing
Singing for performance: conveying emotion and character through performance
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils develop their vocal technique and perform songs with a harmony line. They learn to rehearse songs to a performance standard and evaluate their singing, ensuring that they are able to convey the style of each song through an accurate, confident and responsive performance.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to analyse the intention and meaning in a song and sing with a sense of character.
Key Notes
- By breaking a song's structure into sections, we can better understand its story and decide how to stage each part.
- We can follow the rise and fall of pitch by reading a musical score.
- Using gestures can help us to sing legato.
- How we move and how we sing can combine for effective storytelling.
- We can reflect on our performance to assess how clearly we've conveyed a story.
Vocabulary To Learn
- score: the written form of a composition showing the notation and instructions for instruments or voices
- legato: performing in a smooth way
- sequence: a melodic phrase which is repeated at a higher or lower pitch
- structure: the way the music is organised
- staging (verb): making decisions about creating a performance of our version of a story
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once on stage, it is common to focus more on the singing and drop some of the physicality.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
By breaking a song's structure into sections, we can better understand its story and decide how to stage each part. We can follow the rise and fall of pitch by reading a musical score.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'score'
the written form of a composition showing the notation and instructions for instruments or voices.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Once on stage, it is common to focus more on the singing and drop some of the physicality. Correction: We can avoid this by melding the two. How we move and how we sing can be described in similar ways. For example, legato, or smooth singing, may happen whilst we are moving in a smooth manner.
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