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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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