Autumn Term

Orchestral Instruments: Traditional Stories

Learning Questions:

• Do you know the instruments of the orchestra?
• Can we sort them into groups? What do they sound like? What do they look like?
• How are instruments and sounds used to tell a story?
• How is music used in films?
• How could you use dynamics and tempo to show the different feelings of characters in Red Riding Hood?
• Can you write a script for the story Jack and the Beanstalk and suggest suitable music to go with it?
• Can you perform your script using appropriate instrumental and vocal sounds?

Spring Term

Dynamics, timbre, tempo and motif: Space

Learning Questions:

• What sounds might we hear in space?
• How can we use our voices to create a soundscape?
• What does this music make you think of?
• What sort of emotions do you feel?
• In what ways are the pieces of music the same and different? What is a motif?
• How can we use dynamics in our motif?

Summer Term

Call and Response: Animals

Learning Questions:

• Can you use instruments to represent different animals? Can you use tempo, dynamics and timbre in your piece? Can you play in time with your group?
• What is call and response?
• Can you sing back the melody line in time and at the correct pitch?
• Can you create rhythms for call and response?
• When you perform your composition, can you stay in time with your group?

Classical music:

• Can you guess which animal is being represented? Why do you think this?How does the music show the lions are the ‘king of the jungle’?
• How would you describe the tempo of ‘Swift Animals’?
• How does the music change for another animal (e.g., swan)?

Whole class instrument lessons:

Handbells