Before the lesson
Learning objective
- To compare two pieces of music
National curriculum
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded
music’
Success criteria
Cross-curricular links
Attention grabber
Main event
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support: May benefit from working as part of a group to explore how many sounds can be adapted to reflect the mood of a piece of music.
Pupils working at greater depth: Should justify how dynamics, tempo and timbre are used to create the dark or heavy mood of war in Holst’s ‘Mars’ and a hopeful or light mood in ‘Venus’. They should also describe the image both pieces of music paint in their mind’s eye.