Year 6 - Music
The importance and power of songs from the past
Singing together: music that comments on social change
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Unit Summary
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Lesson Summary
You will learn to understand how music can connect us emotionally to others and to the past.
Key Notes
- Singing songs about the past can help us connect emotionally with others and keep cultural traditions alive.
- Composers manipulate the elements of music such as timbre and texture, to achieve particular effects.
- We can add different layers of music to our piece to create different textures.
Vocabulary To Learn
- partition: to divide into parts
- score: original music composed specifically to accompany a film
- indigenous: the original inhabitants of a place
- timbre: the description of the sound or tone of an instrument
- texture: the combination of different layers of sounds
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Music and songs written a long time ago aren't relevant to us now.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Singing songs about the past can help us connect emotionally with others and keep cultural traditions alive. Composers manipulate the elements of music such as timbre and texture, to achieve particular effects.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'partition'
to divide into parts.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Music and songs written a long time ago aren't relevant to us now. Correction: Music and songs from the past can help us to connect with, and better understand many people, both at home and abroad.
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