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KS1 & KS2 Composition. John Oates AST Primary Music Warrington Schools’ Arts & Culture Service Tuesday 31 st January 2012 Westbrook Old Hall Primary. www.topologika.com. Elements of Music. Silence Pitch – high or low sounds Dynamics – loud or quiet sounds Tempo – fast or slow music - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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KS1 & KS2 CompositionJohn Oates
AST Primary MusicWarrington Schools’ Arts & Culture Service
Tuesday 31st January 2012 Westbrook Old Hall Primary
Elements of Music• Silence• Pitch – high or low sounds• Dynamics – loud or quiet sounds• Tempo – fast or slow music• Duration – long and short sounds• Timbre – the sound quality• Texture – different combinations/layers of sound• Structure – the overall plan of the music
Key Stage 1 Music
•The children create short compositions with increasing confidence, imagination and control.
Pupils should be taught how to:
•Create musical patterns•Explore, choose and organise sounds and musical ideas
Bang! We’re off and breathing fast.Moving! Racing! Fast fast fast!Running! Chasing! Towards the end.Puffing! Panting! Around the bend.Look left and right I’m in the clear.Finish line! I’ve won! The crowd they cheer.
John Oates
KS1 Music TaskGroup or Class
Create musical patterns – use the natural rhythm of describing words to create rhythmic or melodic patterns.
Repeat the pattern to create an ostinato
Explore other sounds and organise them around the poem. Remember to encourage imagination and control.
Record using invented signs and symbols.
Useful Music Vocabulary
Ostinato – a repeated pattern that can be tuned or untuned and forms part of an accompaniment
Pentatonic Scale – a collection of 5 musical notes (if you start on the note C they would be – C D E G A)
Possible Structures – A B A A B B A B A
A B A C A
Key Stage 2 Music
•They improvise, and develop their own musical compositions, in response to a variety of different stimuli with increasing personal involvement, independence and creativity.
Pupils should be taught how to:
•Improvise, developing rhythmic and melodic material when performing•Explore, choose, combine and organise musical ideas within musical structures
KS2 Music Composition• What is the structure? A B A C A (three ideas)• Explore, choose, combine
and organise musical ideas – use ostinati
• Allow for improvisation – maybe one person in the group.
• Use pentatonic scales.• Record using Audacity
www.audacity.sourceforge.net/
