Learning objectives
- To explore how cyclic patterns are used in gamelan music
National curriculum
Pupils should be taught to:
- Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, (using their voices and) playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
- Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music
- Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
- Use and understand staff and other musical notations
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support: This lesson is designed so that the children can move on at their own pace. These children can, if necessary, move straight from creating their tune to the performance activity without completing the notation activity, and/or they could focus just on creating and notating the semibreve tune without adding the higher octave version.
Pupils working at greater depth: Can move onto the notation activity as soon as they are ready. When they are practising their melodies, they could experiment with playing a ‘lead’ part (Sheet music: Blue sky (lead part – concert pitch/ B flat pitch) – so instead of playing both minims in each bar, they only play the second one, just like the lead part for ‘Blue sky’.
