Ensemble performance from a graphic score
I can read my graphic score and play my part in an ABA composition.
Ensemble performance from a graphic score
I can read my graphic score and play my part in an ABA composition.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- It is important to rehearse as an ensemble in order to perform together successfully.
- Structure is the way the music is organised.
- ABA is a musical sandwich structure.
- Our composition and a chant we know, Do as I Do, have an ABA structure.
Keywords
Rhythm - the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
Ensemble - a group of people who perform together
Perform - presenting our work in front of others
Rehearse - to practise in order to improve and prepare for performance
Structure - the way the music is organised
Common misconception
You can practise on your own and then you will play together successfully as an ensemble.
It is important to rehearse as an ensemble in order to perform successfully.
To help you plan your year 2 music lesson on: Ensemble performance from a graphic score, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 2 music lesson on: Ensemble performance from a graphic score, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
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Explore more key stage 1 music lessons from the Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score unit, dive into the full secondary music curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
A range of classroom percussion instruments. The pupils' graphic scores from lesson 5.
Licence
Starter quiz
4 Questions

the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
a description of the sound or tone of an instrument
the regular, steady heartbeat of the music
Exit quiz
4 Questions

