{"id":2583,"date":"2023-09-28T12:43:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T11:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T11:43:24","slug":"music-2nd-level-bbc-ten-pieces-ride-of-the-valkyries-lesson-4-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/2023\/09\/28\/music-2nd-level-bbc-ten-pieces-ride-of-the-valkyries-lesson-4-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Music &#8211; 2nd Level: BBC Ten Pieces \u2013 Ride of the Valkyries \u2013 Lesson 4 (Structure)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Experiences and Outcomes<\/span>:<br \/>\n<\/strong><span class=\"normaltextrun\">I can sing and play music from a range of styles and cultures, showing skill and using performance directions, and\/or musical notation.<\/span><strong><span class=\"eop\"> EXA 2-16a<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can use my voice, musical instruments and music technology to experiment with sounds, pitch, melody, rhythm, timbre and dynamics. <strong>EXA 2-17a<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Inspired by a range of<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"contextualspellingandgrammarerror\">stimuli, and<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">working on my own and\/or with others, I can express and communicate my ideas, thoughts and feelings through musical activities.<\/span><strong><span class=\"eop\"> EXA 2-18a<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">I have listened to a range of music and can respond by discussing my thoughts and feelings.<\/span><strong><span class=\"eop\"> EXA 2-19a<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Lesson Outcomes<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAfter this lesson, pupils will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen and reflect on a piece of orchestral music<\/li>\n<li>Invent their own musical motifs and structure them into a piece<\/li>\n<li>Perform as an ensemble<\/li>\n<li>Learn musical language appropriate to the task<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Curriculum Checklist<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nLearners will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Play and perform in ensemble contexts, using voices and playing musical instruments<\/li>\n<li>Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music<\/li>\n<li>Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Activities<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Warm up. <\/strong>Begin again in a circle and remind your class of the elements they have explored so far. You can turn this into a game by encouraging your pupils to clap back their rhythms, mime playing their tunes and create gestures to help remember elements like \u2018swooping\u2019, \u2018wobbling\u2019 etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Here\u2019s a list of what you should have \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>A section:<\/strong><br \/>\nTrills\/ wobbles<br \/>\nUpward swoops<br \/>\nBig tune<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>3 episodes:<\/strong><br \/>\nFalling<br \/>\nHeroic notes<br \/>\nExplosions<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Get the instruments out <\/strong>and put these sections back together, then <strong>explain<\/strong> that Wagner uses a classic shape for his piece called \u2018<u>Rondo form\u2019<\/u> (A-B-A-C-A-D). Your full class piece is the A section. Can your children replicate Wagner\u2019s piece by deciding on an order for their group \u2018episodes\u2019 and alternating them with the A section?<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Try out several versions<\/strong> until you have all agreed on the \u2018best\u2019 one and write it up on the board. <strong>Explain<\/strong> that Wagner varies his \u2018A sections\u2019 \u2013 sometimes the A section creeps back in, sometimes it crashes back in. Sometimes it is very loud, sometimes soft. The length of his A section varies too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Encourage your children <\/strong>to borrow at least one of these ideas from Wagner and adapt at least one of their A sections accordingly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Practise performing your new <u>rondo<\/u> piece until it is nearly perfect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><em>Additional resources and a more detailed lesson plan can be found here on the BBC Ten Pieces website; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/teach\/ten-pieces\/classical-music-richard-wagner-ride-of-the-valkyries\/zdyfmfr\"><strong><em>https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/teach\/ten-pieces\/classical-music-richard-wagner-ride-of-the-valkyries\/zdyfmfr<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiences and Outcomes: I can sing and play music from a range of styles and cultures, showing skill and using performance directions, and\/or musical notation. EXA 2-16a I can use my voice, musical instruments and music technology to experiment with sounds, pitch, melody, rhythm, timbre and dynamics. EXA 2-17a Inspired by a range of\u00a0stimuli, and\u00a0working &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,71,72,73,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exa-2-16a","category-exa-2-17a","category-exa-2-18a","category-exa-2-19a","category-music-second-level-lesson-plans","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}