Year 5
Cultures
People’s cultural background shapes their beliefs, values and actions.
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What?
What?
We are learning:
- Songs and Facts about music in different cultures
- How to identify and use musical elements: pitch, pulse and rhythm
Why?
Why?
We want to understand:
- What constitutes culture (Form)
- How music is connected to other cultural elements (Connection)
- The role music plays in different cultures (Function)
How?
How?
We will achieve this by using:
- Research skills:
- Finding out information
- Asking good questions
- Thinking skills:
- Analysing musical elements
- Coming up with new ideas
We started our inquiry by listening to music from different cultures and identifying three important musical elements: Pitch, Pulse and Rhythm.
Click on the links below to listen to the songs again.
This worksheet helped us identify those musical elements and reflect on how these songs are an expression of culture:
Identifying Musical Elements.docxThese other songs helped us reflect on how communities use music for a wide variety of events and daily activities.
Before watching the videos, we listened carefully and tried to guess what they might have been used for:
This worksheet helped us to make our thinking visible
World_Music_Listening.docxAfter researching about cultures of our interest, we presented songs that we had learned, adding elements to show pitch, pulse and rhythm. These are some of the best performances we produced:
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