Exploring Musical Processes This unit provides an opportunity

Exploring Musical Processes! This unit provides an opportunity for children to develop and demonstrate the musical skills, knowledge and understanding achieved in years 5 and 6. During the unit children will develop an understanding of the process of composing by creating and performing music in response to musical and non-musical stimuli. It is suitable for Years 5 and 6 (9 -11 years) and is closely linked to QCA unit 21

Objectives l l l l How music is composed from a variety of different stimulus How sounds can be used descriptively Understand that music sometimes needs to be written in order to play it To use different starting points for a composition How sounds can be described used symbols About pulse, meter and rhythm To develop a composition from a given starting point

Resources l l l l Interactive whiteboard Access to the internet Graphic score sheet Tuned and un-tuned instruments Digital Camera Text ease Movies Individual Computers School e mail address

Outcomes • l l • • Identify different starting points for composing music Use their voices confidently and descriptively in response to given images Choose instruments and control a range of sounds Understand that musicians read from a score perform using notation as a support improvise rhythmic patterns to a steady pulse with awareness of the metre compose music individually or in pairs using a range of stimuli and developing their musical ideas into a completed composition