Here is an example of what year 2 have been composing in the music lab recently. We have been exploring CHANGE and CONTRAST. High/Low, Long/Short, Fast/Slow. All students have composed their own Jungle Journey with changing sounds. This is Kiley’s ……

N-I-S-T

N I S T Song (YMCA)

Kazoo solo

Young kid, there’s no need to feel down.
I said, young kid, pick yourself off the ground.
I said, young kid, ’cause you’re in a new town,
There’s no need to be unhappy.

Young kid, there’s a place you can go.
I said, young kid, when you’re feeling so low
You can learn there, and I’m sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time.

It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T

They have everything for us kids to enjoy,
You can hang out and make some noise

N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T

You can learn some new things,
You can make some new friends,
You can do whatever you feel …

Young kid, are you listening to me?
I said, young kid, what do you want to be?
I said, young kid, you can make real your dreams.
But you’ve got to know this one thing!

No one does it all by themself.
I said, young kid, put your pride on the shelf,
And just hang there, at the N I S T
I’m sure they can help you today. X X X X X

It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T

They have everything for us kids to enjoy,
You can hang out and make some noise.

N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T

You can learn some new things,
You can make some new friends,
You can do whatever you feel …

Young kid, I was once in your shoes.
I said, I was down and out with the blues.
I felt no one cared if I were alive.
I felt the whole world was so tight …

That’s when someone came up to me,
And said, young kid, take a walk up the street.
There’s a place there called the N I S T
They can start you back on your way. X X X X X

It’s fun to learn at the N I S T
It’s fun to learn at the N I S T

You can learn some new things,
You can make some new friends,
You can do whatever you feel …

N I S T – It’s fun to learn at the N I S T

Young kid, young kid, there’s no need to feel down.
Young kid, young kid, get yourself off the ground.

Kazoo solo

N I S T !

Singalong …….

1685-1750. Exactly the same dates as ‘Mr. Ice Cream Head’ – JS Bach.

The Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.They were a revolution in music. In them Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds, barking dogs, buzzing mosquitoes, crying shepherds, storms, drunken dancers, silent nights, hunting parties from both the hunters’ and the prey’s point of view, frozen landscapes, ice-skating children, and warming winter fires.

Antonio Vivaldi -The Red Priest’.

This is a Graphic Score of ‘Winter’ from ‘The Four Seasons’.

Carnival of the Animals (Part 1) by Camille Saint-Saens

Listen to these pieces of music that describe animals.
How does the music match the animal?

What do the sounds tell you about:

The size of the animal?
How fast it moves?
What sounds it makes?
Whether it has a calm or lively personality?