Lesson 1: Pitter patter raindrops
Listening to the body percussion piece 'Rain Sound', the children are introduced to the terms 'structure' and 'texture' and tasked with identifying these features within the music they hear.
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Learning objective
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Before starting this unit you might want to check children can recall:
Changes within a piece of music can be explained using musical vocabulary.
They can explain the timbre, dynamic, and textural details of a piece of music, both verbally and through movement.
That they can discuss using musical vocabulary (related to the inter-related dimensions of music) improvements to their own and others’ work.
That music often has more than one instrument being played at a time.
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