Traditional instruments & improvisation
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Traditional instruments and improvisation (Theme: India)
Unit outcomes
- Verbalise feelings about music and identify likes and dislikes.
- Read musical notation and play the correct notes of the rag.
- Improvise along to a drone and tal.
- Play a rag and a tal accurately alongside a drone.
- Sing accurately from musical notation and lyrics.
- Sing and play in time with others with some degree of accuracy and awareness of each other’s parts.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Introducing traditional Indian music and instruments
- To form an opinion of Indian music.
Lesson 2: Indian music: Playing a rag
- To be able to improvise using given notes.
Lesson 3: Indian music: Adding a drone
- To be able to improvise using given notes.
Lesson 4: Indian music: Introducing the tal
- To create a piece of music using a drone, rag and tal.
Lesson 5: Indian music: Performing Anile vaa
- To perform a piece of music using musical notation.
Key skills
Key knowledge
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Resources
Unit resources
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Knowledge organiser: Music – Y3 Traditional instruments and improvisation (India)
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