Water Music - Learning, Listening,
Composing & Evaluating Activities
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Water Music - Performing Activities - Songs
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Water Music - Starter & Plenary
Activities
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Water Music from Musical Contexts provides a range of fun and exciting
music activities and learning opportunities combining singing, performing,
composing and listening and appraising with all of the resources you’ll need
in one place! Ideal for non-specialist music teachers (with a wealth of
supporting media files to model tasks and a detailed scheme of work and
lesson plans) and a wealth of fresh inspiration for music specialists.
Whether you’re exploring the topic of Rivers, Seas, The Water Cycle or Water in general, then there’s something within this unit
that will hopefully inspire both you as a teacher and your pupils. This unit provides pupils with the stimulus of water
as a basis for singing, performing, composing, improvising and listening and
appraising to a wide variety of water-inspired music. Pupils begin by creatively composing in
response to a variety of images of water in its various forms before
exploring how the composer Smetana describes the course of a river in his
tone poem “Vltava”. Pupils explore the
concept of melodic shape, identifying melodies which move by step and leap
and compose their own “wandering river” melody using entirely stepwise motion
which is used as part of a larger-scale composition describing the various
stages of the water cycle. Pupils move onto
the sea and make connections between music and art learning about the
impressionist music of Debussy’s “La Mer” and use Monet’s sea paintings as
the basis of an improvisation. Dynamics is a key concept
throughout the using including gradations of dynamics and the crescendo. Finally, pupils use their
learning from the unit to add “water sound effects” to a traditional North
American-Indian legend before listening to Handel’s “Water Music”. Element
Focus - Pitch, Timbre & Dynamics, Melody & Harmony |
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Score 2 - “Moldau” theme from
‘Vltava’ Audio 4 - “Moldau”
theme from ‘Vltava’ MIDI 8 - “Moldau”
theme from ‘Vltava’ Melody |
MIDI 9 - Oh I do
like to be beside the seaside - song melody MIDI 10 - The big
ship sails on the ally ally oh - song melody MIDI 11 - Five
little fish swimming by the shore - song melody MIDI 12 - A sailor
went to sea, sea, sea - song melody |
Scheme of Work |
Lesson Plan (PDF) |
Lesson Plan (DOC) |
Lesson Bundles (ZIP) Download all the
resources you need for each lesson (excluding video files) in a ZIP file. |
Lesson 1 Exploring Images of
Water Music |
Resource Bundle |
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Lesson 2 Exploring Melodic
Shapes |
Resource Bundle |
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Lesson 3 Exploring Stepwise
Melodies |
Resource Bundle |
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Lesson 4 Exploring The Water
Cycle |
Resource Bundle |
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Lesson 5 Exploring the
Sounds of the Sea |
Resource Bundle |
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Lesson 6 Exploring the
Singing River Story |
Resource Bundle |
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Rivers Composing Sheet |
River Poems Composing Cards |
The Singing River Composing Sheet (uses Audio 8) |
The Singing River Narration |
Evaluating Water Music Pieces |
Gardens in the Rain - Debussy |
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Listening to “Vltava” from “Ma Vlast” (uses Audio 2) |
“Vltava” from “Ma Vlast” - Smetana |
Wandering Rivers |
The Water Cycle Composing Sheet (uses Audio 5) |
Monet Sea Pictures Improvisation
Cards |
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Song Sheet 1 - Two North American
Indian River Songs MIDI 1 - Canoe
Round MIDI 2 - Land of
the Silver Birch |
Down the River MIDI 3 - Upper
Part; Midi 4 - Lower Part MIDI 5 - Upper
& Lower Parts Together |
Score 1 - Water Round (with and without
note names) MIDI 6 - Melody
Line; MIDI 7 - as a 4 part round |
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Handel’s Water Music (uses Audio 1) |
“Hornpipe” from ‘Water Music’ Handel |
Musical Pictures Water Photos |
A Seaside Tongue Twister |
Listening for Shapes (uses Audio 1) |
Listening for Shapes |
“Vltava” Card Sort (uses Audio 2) |
“Vltava” from “Ma Vlast” - Smetana |
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Smooth or Spiky? |
STOMP Out Loud Waterphonics |
Pictures of Sound “La Mer”- Debussy |
My Water Music Learning |
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