Year 6 - Music
Reflecting on a successful performance
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 reflect on your performance and identify what has been successful.
Key Notes
- Rehearsal requires patience, creativity and repetition.
- We use our bodies and the space in different ways, and with different energy, depending on the feel of the song.
- Warming up our bodies and voices can boost our performance because we're focused and physically prepared to perform.
- If we are focused and enjoying our performance, it helps an audience feel relaxed watching it.
- Receiving feedback can help us see what we're doing well and where we can make improvements to our performance.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rehearsal: a practice session in which a performance is prepared
- performance: a work that is presented to an audience
- staging: making decisions about creating a performance of our version of a story
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once the performance is done, our learning is done too.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Rehearsal requires patience, creativity and repetition. We use our bodies and the space in different ways, and with different energy, depending on the feel of the song.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'rehearsal'
a practice session in which a performance is prepared.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Once the performance is done, our learning is done too. Correction: Watching a performance back and/or getting feedback from an audience/ director/teacher is hugely valuable in cementing our learning. We can see and hear how we used our voices and bodies to tell a story and how we applied the techniques we learnt.
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