1. Year 5 and 6 Music YEAR A Summer 2011 ROUNDABOUT
2. Learning Intention
To learn about rounds
To learn some rounds
3. Round Game
Watch the video
4. Round Game 5. Round Game
Play the game saying uncrossed or crossed
6. Round Game
Divide the class in half, second group starts after four sets
of legs
7. The Human Drum Kit
Are you ready?Click clickCause youre in for a treat,
Are you ready?Click clickWith your fingers and feet,
Are you ready?Click clickCan you feel the beat?
We are the human drum kit!
Stamp, stamp!goes the big bass drum,
Now listen to the hi-hat,ch ch, ch ch
Snares goclap clap, clap clap
Followed by a crash on the cymbalsSH!
8. The Human Drum Kit
How are the verse and chorus different from each other?
Now well perform it ourselves
9. hhhhhh hhhhhh hhhhhh shhhhh bal cym - on the crash by a
followed clap clap clap clap go snares ch ch ch ch hat high to the
listen now drum bass big goes the 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10. The Human
Drum Kit
Can we put all the words into our thinking voices?
This is calledinternalising
Say the words silently in your head
11. Evaluate, Improve
Are the groups able to keep time?
How could we improve or make it easier to stay in time?
If time well record our performance
12. ROUNDS
A round is a piece of music in which two or more performers or
groups start one after the other
As each performer reaches the end they begin again the music
goes round and round.
The ENTRY POINTS are the places where the next performer can
begin.
Rounds may have two or more entry points making them 2 part, 3
part and so on.
However, any round MAY be performed by as few as two
performers.
13. Learning Outcomes
Weve learned about rounds
Weve learned to perform some rounds
14. Year 5 and 6 Music YEAR A Summer 2011 ROUNDABOUT 2 15.
Learning Intention
To revise about rounds
To revise the Human Drumkit round
To learn about the effects of different notes played
together
16. The Human Drum Kit
Are you ready?Click clickCause youre in for a treat,
Are you ready?Click clickWith your fingers and feet,
Are you ready?Click clickCan you feel the beat?
We are the human drum kit!
Stamp, stamp!goes the big bass drum,
Now listen to the hi-hat,ch ch, ch ch
Snares goclap clap, clap clap
Followed by a crash on the cymbalsSH!
17. hhhhhh hhhhhh hhhhhh shhhhh bal cym - on the crash by a
followed clap clap clap clap go snares ch ch ch ch hat high to the
listen now drum bass big goes the 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18.
Vocabulary
What is a round?
What isunison ?
What is an entry point?
19. Vocabulary
What is a round?
Two or more performers
Start one after the other
Start again as they reach the end
The music goes round and round
What is unison?
All singing the same tune at the same time.
What is an entry point?
Where the next part starts
20. Autumn Leaves
Autumn leaves are
Falling
Orange, red and
Brown
See them twirling
In the wind and
Floating to the
Ground
21. Autumn Leaves
Listen to these two different versions
Describe what you can hear
What is the musical effect of the two different versions?
Now use a glockenspiel or your own instrument to work out the
notes of the song.
worksheet
Now well play it all together
22. Autumn Leaves Round
Now well explore the effects of entering at different
points
1 second part enters when the first part reaches the second
line
2 entry point at the third line
3 entry point at the fourth line
4 entry point at the fifth line
5 sixth
6 seventh
Which versions do we prefer?
How can we describe the effects of the combinations of
notes?
Tense, tight, relaxed, comfortable
23. Autumn Leaves
Is this a round?
No, there is no entry point that sounds comfortable when we go
round again.
To be a round the song needs to be able to repeat without
producing note clashes.
24. Musical Vocabulary
One note just a note
Two notes or more a chord
When the notes sound comfortable together CONCORD
When the notes clash against each other - DISCORD
25. Learning Outcomes
Weve revised about rounds
Weve described the effects of different notes played together
tense, relaxed, comfortable
Concord and Discord
26. Year 5 and 6 Music YEAR A Summer 2011 ROUNDABOUT 3 27.
Previously..
We had been learning about rounds
What are the characteristics of rounds?
Weve described the effects of different notes played together
tense, relaxed, comfortable
Concord and Discord
28. Learning Intention
Continuing to learn about rounds
To learn a simple round and perform it in 2 or more parts
To accompany it with a simple three note chord ( TRIAD )
29. Shalom
Shalom is a traditional Israeli round
Shalom means peace
Listen to the song
How many musical phrases are there?
Listen to this version
What happens at the start of each phrase?
What do we call this?
30. Shalom
Well sing the round in 4 parts
Shalom my friend, shalom my friend
Shalom, shalom,
Until we meet again, my friend
Shalom, shalom
31. Shalom
Listen to this version
What can we hear played on the chime bars?
We call this aDRONE
Were going to accompany the song with a chord drone
What is a chord?
Were going to use a three note chord
D F A
Does anyone know which chord this is?
32. 33. Shalom
Now well use the notes in the chord to make our own repeating
patterns to accompany the song.
A repeating pattern is called..
OSTINATO
Who has a good pattern to show us?
Well all sing and some will perform their ostinato
34. Learning Outcomes
Weve revised about rounds
Weve sung a round in parts and identified how the parts fit
together
Weve accompanied a round with a repeated chord (drone) and with
ostinato patterns using the notes of that chord