Creating compositions for an animation

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  4. Creating compositions in response to an animation (Theme: Mountains)

Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Verbalise how the music makes them feel.
  • Create actions or movements appropriate to each section of a piece of music.
  • Play in time and with an awareness of other pupils’ parts, giving some thought to dynamics.
  • Play melodies and rhythms which represent the section of animation they are accompanying.

Suggested prior learning

Ballads

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Telling stories through music

  • To tell a story from a piece of music through movement.
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Lesson 2: Creating a soundscape

  • To create a soundscape using percussion instruments.
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Lesson 3: Story sound effects

  • To create a range of sounds to accompany a story.
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Lesson 4: Adding rhythm

  • To compose and perform a rhythm to accompany a story.
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Lesson 5: Musical mountain

  • To compose and notate a short melody to accompany a story.
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Key skills

  • Discussing the stylistic features
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  • To understand that the
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atmosphere

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Assessment – Music Y3: Creating compositions (mountains)

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English

‘Pupils should be taught to:

  • draft and write by, in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot’

See 'National curriculum - English key stages 1 and 2'.

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