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Art and design Computing Design and technology French Geography History Music Physical education Spanish Religion and worldviews RSE & PSHE Science Wellbeing

Lesson 3: Henry Purcell and the ground bass

Learning about 'ground bass' in Baroque music and composing their own repeating melodic patterns.

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Learning objective

To demonstrate an understanding of Baroque music features when composing.

Success criteria

I can describe why Henry Purcell was important

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Attention grabber

Explain to the class that they will listen to some music, and think about its structure (organisation), listening out for any repeating patterns. Play the Audio: Dido’s Lament below to share a clip of the first English opera: Purcell’s opera ‘Dido and Aeneas’. https://www.kapowprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Didos-Lament.mp3Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. Listen and use the…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Could focus just on creating their ground bass pattern, and notating this with letter names using page 1 of the Activity: Ground bass notation.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Could notate their melody in the bass clef. Could make their melody more complex by adding rhythmic variation (crotchets, minims or semibreves, as well as quavers).

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