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5/100 Easy Peasy Composition (and evaluation)

I’m teaching composition to primary classes from Reception to Year 6 (and even a one-off inset session for Primary School Teachers) this term. Here’s how I’m going about it. First, I’ve explored dynamics (loud and soft, and changing between them) with the class. … Continue reading

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Issue 121: Exploring Timbre – conducting game

We had been doing a listening quiz from the AC Black “Music Express Elements 7+”, where the children listened to groups of four instruments played one after another, and then identified which of the four was omitted on a second playing. … Continue reading

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Issue 119: Timbre and Samba

  I took some time out of the samba lesson at one of my classes to discuss timbre. The samba instruments are all very different, apart from perhaps tamborim and repinique which both have a fairly hard “tak tak” sound. What … Continue reading

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Issue 119: La Volta

  The theme for this half term in one of my schools is “timbre”. So save my poor aching head from trying to remember too many lessons at too many schools with too many instruments, I’m kind of incorporating it … Continue reading

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Issue 92: Conducting at Keystage 1

I’m embarking on a few weeks of exploring timbre with my year 1 and 2 class. Last week we listened to three movements from “Carnival of the Animals” Saint-Saens, and discussed them as a class – what did we notice … Continue reading

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Issue 61: The Three Little Pigs

This half of term I have been looking at “timbre” with a year 1 and 2 class, working towards performing a “musical” version of the Three Little Pigs. This fitted in nicely with their class topic of “Traditional Stories”. We … Continue reading

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Issue 30: Composition Activity using scrap paper

I used this activity last Summer to create a soundscape for the topic “The Seaside”. The children had just returned from a school trip to the beach… I have written it up in this issue in case you were planning … Continue reading

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Issue 23: Words and Music

Several primary school music schemes that I have used include extracts of “Stripsody” by Cathy Berberian as a starting point for creative work. (Music Express year 5 and the Oxford Music Scheme part 2). Here’s a very rough description of the … Continue reading

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