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Britain Since 1930 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.
This unit has cross-curricular links with the popular primary history topic
of World War II. This unit explores musical
styles in Britain during the 1930’s and 1940’s and focuses on music popular
during the Second World War. Pupils begin by exploring songs which were
popular during WWII investigating their melodic shape and how melodies can
move by steps and leaps. Pupils then move onto explore how the stepwise
movement of the Chromatic Scale can be used to reproduce the “sliding” sound
of WWII Sirens and use this to create their own descriptive WWII
soundscape. Pupils then move onto explore the instrumental genre of
Swing Music and Big Bands, moving to a piece of Swing Music and exploring how
Theme and Variations is used in a piece of Big Band Music. |
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Lesson 1 Exploring British Music during WWII |
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Lesson 2 Exploring Steps and Leaps in WWII Songs |
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Lesson 3 Exploring WWII Sirens and the Chromatic Scale |
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Lesson 4 Exploring WWII Soundscapes |
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Lesson 5 Exploring Swing and Big Band Music of the 1930’s and
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Lesson 6 Exploring Theme and Variations |
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Listening to Variations on Little Brown Jug (uses Audio 3) |
Exploring the Melody Line to “We’ll Meet Again” (uses MIDI 7) |
Music in Britain in World War II (uses Audio 13 & 14) |
Listening to WWII Soundscapes (uses Audio 10) |
Evaluating WWII Soundscapes |
Worksheet 6 |
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Guess the Decade Quiz (Uses Audio 2) |
Little Brown Jug Melodic Shape (optional MIDI 2) |
Variations on Twinkle, Twinkle Card Sort (uses Audio 5) |
Listening to Music which uses the Chromatic Scale (uses Audio 17) |
Original WWII Piano Soundscape - Emma Short |
WWII Sirens ‘Warning’ and ‘All Clear’ |
Dancing to Swing Music (uses Audio 15) |
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Pitch Quiz (Uses Audio 16) |
The Variations Lucky Dip Machine |
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Song Sheet 1 - We’ll Meet Again MIDI 1 - melody line (repeated twice)
Audio 1 - Audio example performed by
Vera Lynn Audio 6 - Backing Track with Piano
Chords |
Song Sheet 2 - Little Brown Jug MIDI 2 - melody line of verse then
chorus Audio 4 - Karaoke Singalong Video 1 - Karaoke SInglong with
on-screen lyrics (46 MB) |
Score 2 - Melodies for Variations MIDI 3 - Twinkle, twinkle little star
melody MIDI 4- Frčre
Jacques melody MIDI 5- London’s Burning melody MIDI 6- One a Man fell in a Well
melody |
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Song Sheet 3 - We’re Gonna Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line MIDI 8 - melody line Audio 7 - song example |
Wartime Rap A two-part Q&A/Call &
Response Chant with optional actions.
Two parts modelled with pulse on MIDI 9 |
Sung to the tune of “John Brown’s
Body” MIDI 10 - melody line (repeated 3
times) MIDI 11 & 12 - Vocal/Percussion
Ostinato 1 & 2 Audio 8 - karaoke/singalong backing
track |
Sung to the tune of ‘The Hokey Cokey’
with actions MIDI 13 - melody line Audio 9 - karaoke/singalong backing
track |
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Score 3 - Performing WWII Siren Calls MIDI 14 - “All Clear” WWII Siren MIDI 15 - “Warning” WWII Siren |
Rat-a-Tat |
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Chromaticism |
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