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Music, Movement and images
"Music and movement can express specific ideas that are interpreted by the audience"
As a provocation to start our Unit of Inquiry, we enjoyed the story "My FamBam: Got to have Music":
This story helped us to introduce the key concept "Perspective" and discuss how we all have different musical tastes.
My Fam Bam.MP4Here you can find the homework to discuss your family's musical preferences:
A Musical Family.Homework.docxTo continue our inquiry into the concept of perspective and musical meanings, we listened to different styles of music and reflecting on how the music makes us feel and what it makes us think of.
Likes and dislikes_Zones_of_Reg.docxWe used these worksheets to reflect and express our ideas. You can also try this activity at home. Print the worksheets, listen to the Playlist on your left and if you like this music: Give it a heart!!! Draw a facial expression of how it makes you feel and in the box write what it makes you think of.
The final element of our unit was to listen and move to Camile Saint-Saens' piece "The Carnival of the Animals".
We created movement sequences to dance to the music and discussed how composers can create music that describes specific ideas, like animals and their characteristics.
Here you can enjoy the whole piece, including the music we danced to:
Below you can watch some videos that I recorded to remind you of the moves we did in class.
You can also click on each song to listen and move by yourselves:
IMG_0499.MOVThe March of the Lions
Song: March of the Lions
IMG_0500.MOVHens and cockerels
Song: Hens and cockerels
The following songs have no videos, but I am sure that you will remember what we did in class:
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