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Ensemble performance from a graphic score

I can read my graphic score and play my part in an ABA composition.

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Year 2

Ensemble performance from a graphic score

I can read my graphic score and play my part in an ABA composition.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. It is important to rehearse as an ensemble in order to perform together successfully.
  2. Structure is the way the music is organised.
  3. ABA is a musical sandwich structure.
  4. 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.


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Try Do as I Do with two different actions to represent the A section and the B section.
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Equipment

A range of classroom percussion instruments. The pupils' graphic scores from lesson 5.

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Lesson video

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4 Questions

Q1.
When we chant we are...
Correct answer: speaking in time to a steady pulse
singing in time to a steady pulse
playing in time to a steady pulse
Q2.
When we are composing we are...
singing a song
creating new music
playing an instrument
Q3.
A description of an instrument's tone is called its .
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: timbre, Timbre
Q4.
Match the music element to its definition.
Correct Answer:rhythm,the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
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the pattern of sounds that we play and sing

Correct Answer:timbre,a description of the sound or tone of an instrument
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a description of the sound or tone of an instrument

Correct Answer:pulse,the regular, steady heartbeat of the music
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the regular, steady heartbeat of the music

4 Questions

Q1.
To play successfully as an ensemble, we must first __________ together.
improvise
Correct answer: rehearse
sing
Q2.
The pattern of sounds that we play and sing is called the .
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: rhythm, Rhythm
Q3.
Structure is...
An image in a quiz
how fast or slow the music is played
the pattern of sounds we play and sing
Correct answer: the way the music is organised
Q4.
ABA is a musical __________ structure.
Correct answer: sandwich
two-part
call and response