Lesson video

Hi, everyone.

I'm Ms. Boyd and I'll be your music teacher today.

For this lesson, we are going to learn about homophonic texture.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to recognise homophonic texture, you'll perform a homophonic texture, and you will be able to describe what homophonic texture is.

To prepare for this lesson, all you will need is an exercise book and a pencil.

But before we get started, should we begin with a hello song? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Hello, hello, it's good to see you ♪ ♪ Hello, hello, it's good to see you ♪ ♪ I must say, you've made my day ♪ ♪ Hello, hello, hello ♪ So what is homophonic texture? When you listen to a piece of music, there'll be different layers of music that you can hear.

That's called texture, musical texture.

Now homophonic texture is a particular type of texture.

Homophonic texture means that there are many layers to a sound, but they are all doing the same thing.

Just like these pieces of pasta in the image on our screen.

Can you see there are many layers, there are three layers in this instance, but they're all doing the same thing? Now let's have a listen to a homophonic texture.

Did you hear? In that example, there was a melody, a tune, a main tune, and then underneath it was this pattern.

♪ Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ Those were chords and they were three different instruments doing the same thing at the same time, just like the picture of my pasta.

Have another listen.

Let's listen to another example of homophonic texture.

This time we're going to listen to a choir, so lots of people singing.

Now, they are singing the same thing at the same time but they all have different notes to start with, which means that they are creating a homophonic texture.

See, there were lots of voices there but they were doing the same thing.

However, they were slightly singing different notes which meant that they were creating homophonic texture.

For our next activity, have a listen to this homophonic texture.

We're going to try and join in afterwards.

Did you hear there that here were a few things happening? The violin was playing the melody, the main tune, but there was also a pattern underneath that that the piano was playing.

Have another listen.

It kind of sounded like this.

♪ Mm cha mm cha mm cha mm cha ♪ And it repeated itself over and over again, but it really did compliment the main melody that was happening.

That's homophonic: the piano was playing a mm cha mm cha mm cha pattern underneath the main tune which made the texture of the music homophonic.

Now let's listen again and try and sing along to the ♪ Mm cha mm cha ♪ So we can join in with this homophonic texture.

♪ Mm cha mm cha mm cha mm cha ♪ ♪ Mm cha mm cha mm cha mm cha ♪ ♪ Mm cha mm cha mm cha ♪ Now that you've had a go at performing and listening to homophonic texture, I would like you to try this challenge.

Pause the video to complete this task.

I would like you to go and draw or paint or make your own homophonic texture, just like my pasta.

Remember, homophonic texture is when there are different layers of music, but they're doing the same thing.

So make it interesting.

And remember to ask an adult to help you if you need it.

We're at the end of our lesson today but you've done so well.

You've been able to recognise homophonic textures.

You've had a chance to perform homophonic textures, and I think you can now describe what homophonic texture is.

Great work, but before we go, we have to say goodbye properly with our goodbye song.

Are you ready? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Goodbye, goodbye ♪ ♪ It's time to go now ♪ ♪ Goodbye, goodbye ♪ ♪ It's time to go now ♪ ♪ I must say you've made my day ♪ ♪ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

♪ If you'd like to share some of the music we've made together today, feel free to ask your parent or carer to share your work on social media.