Year 1
A Day at the Seaside
Lesson 1
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Lesson 1: To respond to music and the story it is telling
Year 1 – A Day at the Seaside
Key Vocabulary – Story, ostinato, pulse
Lesson 1: To respond to music and the story it is telling
Outcomes
I can listen with attention to music and sounds
I can move to the pulse
I can suggest sounds to create and play an ostinato
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Do now
As a class discuss the following questions:
Listen – screen off
Kate Bush: Wild Man
Discuss:
What can you hear?
How fast is the music?
Is it loud or quiet?
Are there high or low sounds? Or both?
How does the music make you feel?
Listen again
Tap the pulse
Discuss:
What do you see in the film?
Kate Bush: Wild Man
Watch
Move to the music
How do the figures move?
Information
Did you move like the figures in the film?
Wild Man" is a song by Kate Bush released in 2011 in the album 50 Words for Snow. It tells the story of sightings of the Yeti in the wilds of the Himalayas, and of the efforts to protect him from discovery.
This is an example of music telling a story
Do
Task
As a class create a short ostinato pattern to represent trekking through the snow, using voices and/or unpitched percussion instruments.
Ostinato – a pattern that repeats over and over again throughout a piece of music.
Agree on –
Will we play loudly or quietly? Quickly or slowly? High or low pitched?
How will we start?
How will we end?
Plenary
Time to Talk:
What did you achieve in this lesson?
Can music tell a story? How?
What is an ostinato?
Rehearse then record a final performance of the trekking ostinato.
How confident are you?
I can listen with attention to music and sounds
I can move to the pulse
I can suggest sounds to create and play an ostinato
1. Very confident
2. Unsure
3. Not confident