Summer

This piece may be as simple or as challenging as teachers and their students wish. It is intended to be used as flexibly as possible. It is based upon ‘indeterminacy’ and through performer choice, each performance will be different. The inspiration for this piece comes from ‘summer by the sea’ but it is intended that teachers and their students interpret the fragments as they wish.

It may be used as a stand-alone piece for performance, as a warm-up to a music or singing lesson or as a unit of work.

The fragments may be performed using voices, any percussion and/or tuned instruments. The fragments may be performed in unsion, groups or in nine parts.

It is intended to be a companion piece to my free resource ‘Spring’.

The set includes; Teacher Notes;
Score of nine fragments;
Creative planning grid for Key Stage 2 with ideas for lessons and activities.

Instrumentation
The notation is for voices, any percussion instruments and /or tuned instruments.

Aims
The piece is intended to support the aims and develop the skills set out in the National Curriculum for Music for Key Stages 2 and 3. (2013) and ABRSM music medals. This unit of work also supports ‘A national Plan for Music Education’ (2022, pp.15 -34).