Music today: what do we like?

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Music

Objectives

History

  • Develop an awareness of the past.
  • Understand changes within living memory.
  • Study aspects of historical change related popular music.
  • Understand where events studied fit within a chronological framework.

Music

  • Know what is meant by pulse or steady beat.
  • Know how to combine pulse and rhythm.
  • Know how to create rhythmic patterns based on words and phrases.
  • Use pulse and rhythm to create an accompaniment for a chant or song.

Lesson Planning

Compare how music has changed over the decades to some popular music of today. Explore how we experience music differently today.

Teaching Outcomes
To listen to a type of popular music from current times (rap music) and relate this to the time line previously constructed.
To create a simple rhythmic rap based on a chosen subject, (e.g. football).

Children will:

  • Understand that our music time line continues until the present day.
  • Accompany a chant or song by clapping or playing the pulse or rhythm of the words.
  • Recall and perform rhythmic patterns to a steady pulse.

You Will Need

  • Percussion instruments