Sp 1 | Ensemble Skills 2: Melody and Accompaniment (Recorder)
Year 4 students further hone their ensemble skills, now incorporating melody and accompaniment using the recorder. This unit aligns with the curriculum’s objective of nurturing collaborative music-making experiences. Pupils expand their ability to work together in a musical context, understanding …
Overview
Year 4 students further hone their ensemble skills, now incorporating melody and accompaniment using the recorder. This unit aligns with the curriculum’s objective of nurturing collaborative music-making experiences. Pupils expand their ability to work together in a musical context, understanding the interplay between melody and accompaniment. This development lays the foundation for more complex ensemble work, preparing them for future ensemble notation and performance tasks.
Expected Standards:
- Play melodies on tuned percussion, melodic instruments, or keyboards, following staff notation written on one stave and using notes within the middle C–G/do–so range.
- Perform in two or more parts (e.g. melody and accompaniment or a duet) and identify the static and moving parts.
- Copy short melodic phrases including those using the pentatonic scale.
Lesson structure
- Introduce the unit
- Warm up
- Song/Rhyme
- Theory
- Ensemble activity
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Course Features
- Lectures 6
- Quiz 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 4
- Assessments Yes
