Today we explored different sounds and how each sound has it’s own unique colour, character and sound.  This is called TIMBRE.Timbre is the character or quality of a musical sound.

When composing it’s up to the composer to choose which mix of sounds they want to mix together.

What the Ladybird Heard Story

Have a watch of Julia Donaldson and her husband Malcolm singing their story What the Ladybird Heard  The ladybird, the smallest and quietest animal on the farm, listens and then comes up with a clever plan to stop the thieves stealing the prize cow.   Each farm animal as a different and unique sound / timbre.

Attached are lyrics (words) so you can sing along.

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Thank you for your photos and pictures of your brilliant percussion instruments that you found at home.  Using our four sounds we can now compose our own animal piece of music.  Have a watch of the film showing selecting sounds and ideas for how to write down our own music.  KS1 Composing and writing down our music  A worksheet to us is below.  Have fun making up your own song and send in your worksheet (to music@threemilestone.cornwall.sch.uk) showing how you’ve written it down (using notation) and / or photos of you singing your song.  What animals will you use?  What sound will they make? How will you write down their sounds?

Have another go at the Hey Ungua warm up song.  Good to warm up your brain in the morning!  Can you do the body percussion at the same time as singing?