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Secondary/Key Stage 3 Unit - Variations

Exploring Ways to Develop Musical Ideas

This unit develops pupils’ ability to recognise, explore and make creative use of the elements of music found in variation form.  Pupils begin this unit by working with a famous theme and exploring different musical ways in which this can be varied and developed, using the elements of music and exploring changes in tonality and rhythm.  Pupils explore how composers have used variation form in a selection of music from different times and places.  Finally, pupils learn about the concept of Ground Bass, as a type of Variation Form, performing Pachelbel’s “Canon” and composing their own Ground Bass Variations before looking at how Ground Bass has been used in popular songs.              

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