Year 7 - Music
How music can paint pictures
Making music together
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Unit Summary
This unit develops pupils' confidence and enjoyment in making music, encouraging them to see themselves as musicians. They sing as a group, develop composition skills, and revisit key musical terms to engage thoughtfully with the elements of music and use them creatively and expressively.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to compose a piece of music with appropriate use of the elements of music to represent a chosen stimulus.
Key Notes
- Using the elements of music appropriately can help us depict an image or tell a story with music.
- Structure is an important element of music that refers to how the sections within a piece of music are organised.
- Composing a musical idea as a starting point for a composition which depicts a scene.
- It is important that a musical idea recurs like a motif, or repeats like an ostinato, to ensure the piece is memorable.
Vocabulary To Learn
- elements of music: important aspects of music (such as pitch, tempo and dynamics) which can be used to help us understand music
- structure: the different sections of a piece of music and how it is organised
- motif: a short musical idea that recurs throughout a piece of music
- ostinato: a short repeated pattern
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- We can develop a composition around any element of music.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Using the elements of music appropriately can help us depict an image or tell a story with music. Structure is an important element of music that refers to how the sections within a piece of music are organised.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'elements of music'
important aspects of music (such as pitch, tempo and dynamics) which can be used to help us understand music.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: We can develop a composition around any element of music. Correction: Using the elements of music, particularly individually, is not always helpful for pupils to make a start on a composition. Finding a musical starting point such as a set of notes or rhythm allows pupils to then explore the elements through that idea.
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