Remixing classical music, 5 lessons, KS2

Have fun remixing ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ with body percussion & classroom instruments. Make an arrangement, improvise and create a graphic score.

This plan covers all aspects of the KS2 national curriculum for music, particularly to ‘develop an understanding of the history of music’, and includes everything you need - an overview of the course, five detailed lesson plans, audio examples and a detailed assessment sheet.

In this resource you will:

• Listen to a piece of classical music and learn about the orchestra.
• Learn how to create music for a story.
• Compare music written in the 1870’s with the pop music of today.
• Play together on tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments using the inter-related dimensions of music to add variety and colour to your piece.
• Learn a body-percussion pattern and transfer it on to instruments in order to make a contemporary remix of In the Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg.

Meet the aims of the KS2 National Curriculum for music, including:

• Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts…playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
• Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music.
• Listen with attention to detail.
• Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.
• Develop an understanding of the history of music.