Weather & Seasons - Starter & Plenary Activities

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Weather and Seasons 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 Weather or The Four Seasons, then there’s something within this unit that will hopefully inspire both you as a teacher and your pupils

​This unit develops pupil’s ability to recognise how sound sources can be used expressively and be combined to create music in response to the Weather and the Seasons. Pupils explore how sounds can be changed, combined and organized to create class and group compositions. They respond to stimuli by the Weather and explore ways in which sound can be used expressively. Pupils are introduced to the music of the Baroque period and to the genre of the solo concerto focusing on “The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi and exploring programme music further.

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