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Emotive music

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Shang Dynasty Music

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Objectives

History

  • Children should undertake an in-depth study of The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China.

Music

  • Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.
  • Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes.

Lesson Planning

Listen to different compositions that tell a story or evoke an emotion and examine how the pitch, tempo, timbre and structure communicates elements of a story or an emotion.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To think about the range of music possible with Shang musical instruments.
  • To appreciate and demonstrate that music can tell a story or create an emotion.

Children will:

  • Appreciate the emotional aspect of music.
  • Improvise music to create a certain emotion.
  • Discuss the Shang use of music.

You Will Need

  • Bells
  • Pan pipes
  • Flutes
  • Drums
  • Cymbals
  • Ocarinas
  • Chimes

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