1. Year 5 and 6 Music YEAR A Summer 2011 ROUNDABOUT

2. Learning Intention

To learn about rounds

To learn some rounds

3. Round Game

Watch the video

4. Round Game 5. Round Game

Play the game saying uncrossed or crossed

6. Round Game

Divide the class in half, second group starts after four sets of legs

7. The Human Drum Kit

Are you ready?Click clickCause youre in for a treat,

Are you ready?Click clickWith your fingers and feet,

Are you ready?Click clickCan you feel the beat?

We are the human drum kit!

Stamp, stamp!goes the big bass drum,

Now listen to the hi-hat,ch ch, ch ch

Snares goclap clap, clap clap

Followed by a crash on the cymbalsSH!

8. The Human Drum Kit

How are the verse and chorus different from each other?

Now well perform it ourselves

9. hhhhhh hhhhhh hhhhhh shhhhh bal cym - on the crash by a followed clap clap clap clap go snares ch ch ch ch hat high to the listen now drum bass big goes the 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10. The Human Drum Kit

Can we put all the words into our thinking voices?

This is calledinternalising

Say the words silently in your head

11. Evaluate, Improve

Are the groups able to keep time?

How could we improve or make it easier to stay in time?

If time well record our performance

12. ROUNDS

A round is a piece of music in which two or more performers or groups start one after the other

As each performer reaches the end they begin again the music goes round and round.

The ENTRY POINTS are the places where the next performer can begin.

Rounds may have two or more entry points making them 2 part, 3 part and so on.

However, any round MAY be performed by as few as two performers.

13. Learning Outcomes

Weve learned about rounds

Weve learned to perform some rounds

14. Year 5 and 6 Music YEAR A Summer 2011 ROUNDABOUT 2 15. Learning Intention

To revise about rounds

To revise the Human Drumkit round

To learn about the effects of different notes played together

16. The Human Drum Kit

Are you ready?Click clickCause youre in for a treat,

Are you ready?Click clickWith your fingers and feet,

Are you ready?Click clickCan you feel the beat?

We are the human drum kit!

Stamp, stamp!goes the big bass drum,

Now listen to the hi-hat,ch ch, ch ch

Snares goclap clap, clap clap

Followed by a crash on the cymbalsSH!

17. hhhhhh hhhhhh hhhhhh shhhhh bal cym - on the crash by a followed clap clap clap clap go snares ch ch ch ch hat high to the listen now drum bass big goes the 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18. Vocabulary

What is a round?

What isunison ?

What is an entry point?

19. Vocabulary

What is a round?

• Two or more performers

• Start one after the other

• Start again as they reach the end

• The music goes round and round

What is unison?

• All singing the same tune at the same time.

What is an entry point?

• Where the next part starts

20. Autumn Leaves

Autumn leaves are

Falling

Orange, red and

Brown

See them twirling

In the wind and

Floating to the

Ground

21. Autumn Leaves

Listen to these two different versions

Describe what you can hear

What is the musical effect of the two different versions?

Now use a glockenspiel or your own instrument to work out the notes of the song.

worksheet

Now well play it all together

22. Autumn Leaves Round

Now well explore the effects of entering at different points

1 second part enters when the first part reaches the second line

2 entry point at the third line

3 entry point at the fourth line

4 entry point at the fifth line

5 sixth

6 seventh

Which versions do we prefer?

How can we describe the effects of the combinations of notes?

Tense, tight, relaxed, comfortable

23. Autumn Leaves

Is this a round?

No, there is no entry point that sounds comfortable when we go round again.

To be a round the song needs to be able to repeat without producing note clashes.

24. Musical Vocabulary

One note just a note

Two notes or more a chord

When the notes sound comfortable together CONCORD

When the notes clash against each other - DISCORD

25. Learning Outcomes

Weve revised about rounds

Weve described the effects of different notes played together tense, relaxed, comfortable

Concord and Discord

26. Year 5 and 6 Music YEAR A Summer 2011 ROUNDABOUT 3 27. Previously..

We had been learning about rounds

What are the characteristics of rounds?

Weve described the effects of different notes played together tense, relaxed, comfortable

Concord and Discord

28. Learning Intention

Continuing to learn about rounds

To learn a simple round and perform it in 2 or more parts

To accompany it with a simple three note chord ( TRIAD )

29. Shalom

Shalom is a traditional Israeli round

Shalom means peace

Listen to the song

How many musical phrases are there?

Listen to this version

What happens at the start of each phrase?

What do we call this?

30. Shalom

Well sing the round in 4 parts

Shalom my friend, shalom my friend

Shalom, shalom,

Until we meet again, my friend

Shalom, shalom

31. Shalom

Listen to this version

What can we hear played on the chime bars?

We call this aDRONE

Were going to accompany the song with a chord drone

What is a chord?

Were going to use a three note chord

D F A

Does anyone know which chord this is?

32. 33. Shalom

Now well use the notes in the chord to make our own repeating patterns to accompany the song.

A repeating pattern is called..

OSTINATO

Who has a good pattern to show us?

Well all sing and some will perform their ostinato

34. Learning Outcomes

Weve revised about rounds

Weve sung a round in parts and identified how the parts fit together

Weve accompanied a round with a repeated chord (drone) and with ostinato patterns using the notes of that chord