Music Year 4: Fossils
Introduction
Children use Karaoke software to listen to instruments and to explore orchestral arrangements. They focus on the xylophone, exploring how sounds are made. They go on to research the xylophone on the internet
What will the children learn?
• names of instruments
• to identify instruments in an orchestral arrangement
• how sounds are created on the xylophone
• how the xylophone may be used in descriptive music
These pages support and develop aspects of the QCA scheme of work for music at KS1 and KS2, Unit 9: Animal Magic. This unit 'develops children's ability to create, perform and analyse short descriptive compositions that combine sounds, movements and words'. In this unit, children are presented with the starting- point of music about animals in order that they may begin to recognize and explore ways in which sounds can be used descriptively. They consider how combinations of musical elements including pitch, duration, dynamics and tempo can contribute to the effectiveness of these musical descriptions
uses: midi | compose world junior | mp3 | pdf
