Holi Festival
Holi, the Hindu festival of colour, celebrates the beginning of spring and the triumph of good over evil. Celebrations include throwing and smearing each other with vibrant, multi-coloured paints and powders and children explore the associations between music, sounds and colour building up to composing and performing their own musical composition to represent Holi
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Lesson 1: Hearing Colours
Children explore how music can be experienced in a more visual way by associating sounds and rhythms with different colours
View LessonLesson 2: Picturing Music
Building on their knowledge of a graphic score, children focus on colours to create a visual representation of pieces of music
View LessonLesson 3: Vocal Composition
Using abstract art as inspiration, children use the link between colours and music to create their own vocal compositions
View LessonLesson 4: Colour Composition
With a focus on the different dimensions of music, pupils compose a piece of music based upon a single colour
View LessonLesson 5: Performing in Colour
Pupils end this topic by performing their compositions as a class to represent the clash of colours during Holi festival
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