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Music / Year 3 and 4 / Presenting and performing

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Curriculum content descriptions

sing and play music they have learnt and/or composed in informal settings (AC9AMU4P01)

Elaborations
  • performing music such as unison songs, rounds and instrumental music arranged for small ensembles that feature melody and accompaniment parts, such as ostinato or drones
  • introducing performances by sharing information such as the intended purposes of their compositions with others, and documenting how they used the elements of music when composing and/or performing
  • rehearsing and performing music using a range of technologies; for example, learning and (with assistance) applying techniques for using sound reinforcement equipment such as PA, microphones and speakers efficiently to ensure that the audience can hear their performance and they can hear other performers (foldback) or making recordings of rehearsals, listening and evaluating how well they are achieving their aims and making adjustments (as required)
  • planning how they will stage a performance and introduce their performances to audiences using spoken, written or audio-visual formats
  • reading from notation and/or documentation such as a lead-sheet (lyrics and chords), staff or graphic notation that includes invented or learnt symbols when practising and performing music
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Music

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TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 3, Year 4 The Arts

  • TLF-IDM025092

This webpage includes a unit uses various arts practices as the stimuli for exploring the safety message of Stop, Look, Listen, Think. Students create woven artworks to incorporate safety messages; they collaboratively develop a play about safety; and explore rap as a music form and combined with dance convey a safety ...

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Interactive

Shake the papaya tree

  • TLF-IDM025837

Find out more about papaya trees and then learn to draw one! Learn a song about climbing a tree and some movements to perform as you sing the song. Explore how to find the beat in the music.

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Interactive

Colourful melodies

  • TLF-IDM025759

This resource explores making and organising sounds to compose a simple musical composition. Through making a rainbow water xylophone, students will learn how sound waves travel and how different pitches are produced.

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Interactive

Big battles!

  • TLF-IDM025756

Students explore music and dance through body percussion and singing as they learn the story of the unicorn and lion's big battle. They create a collage artwork using images of lions and unicorns that they can find.

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Video

Can you hear the famous rhythm?

  • TLF-IDM019878

Beethoven was a composer who lived about 200 years ago. Have a listen as the orchestra plays one of his most well known pieces of music. Do you recognise it? Can you hear Beethoven's famous rhythm being repeated in the music?

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Interactive

Make it and play it!

  • TLF-IDM025962

Students learn about, make and use percussion instruments.

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Text

World rhythms: tabla

  • TLF-IDM012789

This is a teaching and learning activity to construct and play a tabla or tube-la (double drum). The activity provides a brief history of the tabla, information about the materials needed to make it, time required, assessment strategies, the construction process, how to play the instrument and extension ideas. Tabla artefacts ...

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