Unit 5: India (Instrumental lessons)
Learning and understanding the history and key features of Bollywood films, how ambient sounds can be used to enhance a film score, practising staff notation and performing a film sequence using instruments and movement.
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Unit 5: India (Instrumental lessons)
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Recall some facts about Bollywood music and complete some of the Bollywood dance moves, as shown in the dance tutorial video.
- Suggest and perform vocal, body percussion and untuned percussion sounds to represent aspects of an Indian city.
- Name the pitches of most of the notes, and the duration of all of the notes.
- Spot the performance markings on the sheet music and play accordingly.
- Describe harmony in simple terms and play a harmony part, listening to other performers to help them with timing.
- Play the lead part as this has been practised the most.
See Music: Instrumental scheme for guidance on how to incorporate the instrumental scheme into your planning.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 4: Indonesia (Instrumental lessons)
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Introduction to Bollywood
Lesson 2: Cityscape
Lesson 3: Indian fantasy
Lesson 4: Harmony
Lesson 5: Film sequence
Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Tuned percussion instrument – Choose from chromatic glockenspiels, with sharp and flat notes, xylophones, metallophones, chime bars (two octave set) ×15
- Untuned percussion instruments (claves, guiros, egg shakers, gongs / cymbals) ×15
Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Tuned percussion instrument – Choose from chromatic glockenspiels, with sharp and flat notes, xylophones, metallophones, chime bars (two octave set) ×15
- Untuned percussion instruments (claves, guiros, egg shakers, gongs / cymbals) ×15
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: KS2 Instrumental Music: India
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Unit 5: India (Instrumental lessons)".
Vocabulary display: Instrumental lesson – India
A display version of the key vocabulary for the 'Instrumental lesson - India' unit.