(age 6-7): In this third book of the series, the programme for Year 2 develops more sustained and challenging learning experiences. Attuned to the National Curriculum, content is organised through the musical elements: sound, silence, dynamics, rhythm, pitch, timbre, texture and structure.
Contents
Introduction
MODULE 1 DYNAMICS: Lovely things
Lovely things (development lesson)
The animal kingdom
I can sing quietly
In the distance
The wheel never stops
MODULE 2 PITCH: The up down song
Little red bird: a Manx lullaby
Little red bird (development lesson)
Happy Divali
Chanukkah candles
Gentle donkey
MODULE 3 RHYTHM: Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist (development lesson)
I'm a magician
Are you sleeping?
Sur le pont d'Avignon
Poems and stories as stimuli for composing
MODULE 4 TIMBRE OR TONE QUALITY: Lots of different sounds
Lots of different sounds (development lesson)
Ting, tap, crash
Sound discoveries
Sounds from across the world
Moving mode
MODULE 5 TEXTURE: Sounds around
Sound layers
Togetherness
Building sounds
Turn the glasses over
Rainbow colours
MODULE 6 STRUCTURE: Who's that yonder
Hush little baby
John Brown's body
A ram sam sam
More rounds
Wedding day at Troldhaugen
Piano accompaniment for "The up down song"
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A year-by-year series for teachers in primary schools