Key Stage 3 Music - Folk Music
Overview
During this unit you will:
- Learn how singing is celebrated at Highcliffe School
- Learn traditional folk songs using your aural skills (learning by ear)
- Learn musical features of folk songs, including 6/8 and 4/4 time signatures, call and copy, call and response, dorian scales and phrases.
- Plan and arrange your own ensemble performance of a traditional folk song
- Peer assess each other's ensemble performances
- Evaluate your own performance.
By the end of this topic, you will be able to:
- Perform Folk songs as part of an ensemble.
- Explain how Folk music has been passed on through generations and how it is valued in society.
- Identify key musical features of Folk songs through listening/practical tasks.
- Learn Folk songs in the traditional way (using aural skills).
What am I looking for?
In this topic I will be looking for you to demonstrate:
Understanding
- You can understand musical instructions in a class ensemble and identify simple repeated patterns heard in Folk music.
- You can understand how the musical elements can be used to create different moods and effects in Folk music.
- You can understand how musical devices are used to create expressive Folk songs that reflect time and place.
- You can understand the musical processes and contexts of Folk songs.
How will I show my understanding?
You will show your understanding through practical and listening tasks and group/class discussions. Some of the conversations may be filmed as evidence using the class Ipad.
Skills - Music Making
- You can sing with a sense of the shape of the melody.
- You can repeat short rhythmic and melodic patterns.
- You can sing in tune with expression or perform rhythmically simple parts to a steady pulse.
- You can arrange a Folk song within simple structures (e.g. beginning, middle and end) in response to given starting points.
- You can maintain your own part in your Folk ensemble performance performing by ear or from simple notations.
- You can combine some musical elements and devices successfully developing ideas within musical structures.
- You can maintain your own part with awareness of how the different parts fit together adapting your part to achieve a stylistic effect.
- You can combine musical elements and devices and develop ideas stylistically within musical structures.
How will I show my music making skills?
You will show your musical ability and creative skills through performance and group tasks. There will be opportunities for you to perform as a soloist too. All work will be filmed using the class Ipad to show progress throughout this unit. You can access this via MyHighcliffe - Video Feedback. Make sure you become familiar with where this is as we will be using it a lot! You are encouraged to show this to your parents too so they can see what progress you are making in Music.