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Year 2

Animal

Elements

Lesson 5

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Lesson 5: To create music inspired by an animal, using the interrelated dimensions

Year 2 – Animal Elements

Key Vocabulary – Texture, tempo, dynamics, pitch, compose

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Lesson 5: To create music inspired by an animal, using the interrelated dimensions

Outcomes

I can suggest and select appropriate sounds

I can structure sounds together to match the inspiration

I can share the sounds confidently

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Do now

As a class discuss the following questions:

  1. Name the interrelated dimensions we have learnt about so far

  • What word do we use for thick and thin?

  • What word do we use for fast and slow?

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Do

Revise the class Zoo walking Music created in Lesson 3

Listen to the sounds selected from the recordings last lesson.

Can we add any of these to the walking music?

Try out some ideas

Did it work? Do we still feel this is music for walking around a zoo?

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Task – A Day at the Zoo

In groups, create music for your allocated animal enclosure, showing changes in tempo, texture, pitch and dynamics.

Groups decide –

What sounds will you use?

How will you start?

How will you stop?

How will you change the interrelated dimensions of tempo, texture, pitch and dynamics?

Do

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Plenary

Groups share their animal enclosure sounds.

Audience – can you guess which animal they are representing?

Have the interrelated dimensions of tempo, texture, pitch and dynamics changed?

Time to Talk:

What did you achieve in this lesson?

Name the interrelated dimensions we are working with

What is structure?

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How confident are you?

I can suggest and select appropriate sounds

I can structure sounds together to match the inspiration

I can share the sounds confidently

1. Very confident

2. Unsure

3. Not confident