Here are some videos of students exploring ‘found sounds’ in Rot Fai Park on the recent field trip. They used voices, body sounds and items from the park to explore music-making together.
Year 2: Carnival of the animals
Year 2 created their own music after hearing some of the musical creations by Camille Saint-Saens in his Carnival of the Animals. Is that a mouse or a chicken? A hippo or an elephant? What clues are in the sounds the year 2’s chose and the patterns they made?
Year 1 Sea Soundscapes
What did the sailor really see at the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea?
Year 1 selected sounds and created their own musical patterns to represent what they imagined.
Y4 Music Self Assessment
Y3 – Why birds sing – an inspiration for composers
Claude Debussy – “Reflets dans l’eau” – Reflections in the water.
Claude Debussy was called an impressionistic composer (like the artist Claude Monet) because he tried to capture changing light and colours in his music. He loved nature and is famous for his music depicting water, moonlight, the sea and animals.
Claude Debussy
Alfred Monet
This is a graphic score of his music.
Water Lilies by Claude Monet
Year 3 – Nature, music and composers experimenting.
This ballet caused a riot at its first performance in Paris over 100 years ago – 1913. It was not what ballet-goers were used to!
Listen for the changing rhythm patterns:
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This was what they were used to …..
Check out these changing body rhythms of Keith Terry. He is a dancer who creates music with other artists using no instruments.
Year 3 Music – January
A song to sing …….. it’s good!
Wake me up