My store, Newtonlab specializes in music lesson resources and school assemblies / presentations. And, in case you’re wondering, I named my store Newtonlab because I had a black Labrador called Newton who would sit at my feet when I was working at home.
My store, Newtonlab specializes in music lesson resources and school assemblies / presentations. And, in case you’re wondering, I named my store Newtonlab because I had a black Labrador called Newton who would sit at my feet when I was working at home.
Two Native American Performance Pieces
Tatanka – (Buffalo) and Wimaheliyaye – (Sunset)
Key Stage 2
Two very different pieces; simple to put together and extremely effective, each original composition can be completed in two or three lessons.
Tatanka
Instruments - Drums and/or Tambours, Guiros, Maracas, Woodblocks and/or Claves
Musicians - 5 or 5 groups
Tatanka is Native American for Buffalo. Teach you pupils to perform an original, powerful, five-part, Native American-style composition using a small range of untuned percussion instruments and voices.
Wimaheliyaye
Instruments - Flute or an electric keyboard using the ‘Flute voice’
Musicians - 1 or 1 group
Wimaheliyaye, is a Lakota word that means Sunset. Teach your pupils to perform an original, haunting Native American-style composition using an electric keyboard.
Pupils learn a little history of Native American music, about the percussion family of instruments, graphic and lettered notation and a range of musical terms and signs.
This resource will support your delivery of the National Curriculum for Music. The musical activities in this pack focus on Listening and Playing (National Curriculum for Music 2013) however the activities aid the development of a range of wider skills including focus, team-work, and performance.
This pack includes;
• Detailed step-by-step instructions
• Information about percussion instruments and how to play them
• A musical terms and signs glossary
• Printable graphic, lettered and traditional music scores
• Graphic, lettered and traditional music scores presented through PowerPoint
• An MP3 file recording of Wimaheliyaye, for your support.
• Extension ideas.
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Sound and Silence – Graphic Score
One Unit of Four Music Lessons .
Suitable for Upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 students.
Can we hear silence? Is there such a thing as silence? What is the difference between sound and silence? What’s the difference between listening and hearing?
This unit asks students to consider and discuss these questions. Over four lessons they are given a variety of opportunities to listen to and record the sounds they hear using graphic score.
You do not have to have a musical background to deliver it.
It can be delivered to a small group of pupils, or as many as you have.
This resource will support your delivery of the National Curriculum for Music. The musical activities in this resource focus on Listening (National Curriculum for Music 2013). In addition the activities aid the development of a range of wider skills including focus, reasoning, discussion and presentation.
This pack includes four, progressive, detailed, easy to follow, fun music lessons, a printable worksheet, an example of a completed graphic score and a selection of extension ideas.
If you enjoyed this resource, go check out my shop for more music lessons from Newtonlab!
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