Baroque
Year 6 - Music - Summer 1
Year 6 - Music - Summer 1
Define some key features of Baroque music, including recitative, canon, ground bass and fugue
Take part in a vocal improvisation task based on Baroque recitative
Play several parts of a canon using staff notation, with or without letter names
Compose a ground bass melodic ostinato
Notate a ground bass pattern using staff notation
Name some well-known Baroque composers and describe what musical features they were known for
Learn a fugue part by reading staff notation, with or without note names
Perform a fugue
Key Knowledge
To know that:
A '’polyphonic texture means lots of individual melodies layered together, like a canon.
Music in which very similar parts are introduced one by one to overlap is called a canon.
Ground bass is a repeating melody played on a bass instrument in Baroque music.
A ‘counter-subject’ or ‘counter-melody’ provides contrast to the main melody.
A counter-melody is different to harmony because it uses a different rhythm as well as complementary notes.
A canon is a musical structure or ‘form’ in which an opening melody is imitated by one or more parts coming in one by one.
Baroque
bass clef
canon
fugue
ground bass
opera
oratorio
polyphonic
recitative
Throughout years 2-5, children have learnt about different musical styles including, traditional British songs, jazz, pentatonic melodies, samba and carnival, classical orchestrations, ballads, blues and, earlier in year 6, they learnt about 'songs of WW2'.
The Key Stage 3 (years 7-9) curriculum extends children's knowledge of this unit.