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Expressive & Descriptive Sounds
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Floating Balloons - Ford Mondeo advert, filmed in London. Excellent example of music creating mood with beautiful haunting Piano track in a minor key as accompaniment.
Official classification: Piano, Expressive & Descriptive Sounds, Advertisements, Video, Key Stage 3, Scales & tonality, Minor Scales, Harmony, Curriculum support, Unit 13. Music and media
'O trenzinho do Caipira' by 20th century Brazilian composer is brilliantly descriptive piece, can pupils identify what part of the train each group of instruments represents? Also notice the changes in timbre and tempo.
KS1/2 idea: Play from beginning and ask ch to make a 'train' action, with hands by their sides, in time with the music. Why is it so difficult to keep in time at first? The tempo is unsteady and keeps changing until finally settling into a steady beat when the melody begins.
Official classification: Expressive & Descriptive Sounds, Tempo, Timbre, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, 1900-1949, Classical Pieces, Audio, Programme Music, Curriculum support, Transport, Villa-Lobos, Heitor
A performance simulating a storm using body percussion and lighting effects which moves on to an acapella version of 'Africa' by Toto (1982)
Official classification: Expressive & Descriptive Sounds, Video, Weather, Beatboxing, Vocalising, Body Percussion, Curriculum support, West Sussex Music Service, Rainforest
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