Traditional Instruments and Improvisation
(India)
Year 3 - Music - Summer 2
Year 3 - Music - Summer 2
Verbalise feelings about music and identify likes and dislikes
Read musical notation and play the correct notes of the rag
Improvise along to a drone and tal
Play a rag and tal accurately alongside a drone
Sing accurately from musical notation and lyrics
Sing and play in time with others with some degree of accuracy and awareness of each other’s parts
Key Knowledge
To know that:
‘Indian music uses all of the sounds in between the 12 'notes' that we are used to in western music.
A 'tala' is a set rhythm that is repeated over and over, usually on the drums called 'tabla'.
A 'rag' is the tune in traditional Indian music, and is often played on a stringed instrument called a 'sitar'
A 'drone' in music is a note that goes on and on, staying the same, a bit like someone humming a long-held note.
Many types of music from around the world consist of more than one layer of sound; for example a ‘tala’ and ‘rag’ in traditional Indian music
Bollywood
drone
dynamics
notation
rag
sitar
tabla
tanpura
tala
tempo
In Early Years, Year 1 and Year 2, children have been introduced to a range of pitched and unpitched instruments.
In Year 4, children will continue to enhance their knowledge of different types of traditional instruments as they learn about Samba and Carnival instruments from South America.