MENDELSSOHN’S SPRING SONG
Lovely to see so many of you in music this week. Spring is inching closer started today we listened to Mendelssohn’s Spring Song, one of his many pieces for solo piano he composed called ‘Songs without words’.
KS1 – COMPOSING SOME SPRINGTIME MUSIC
We are looking at Spring time songs and today learnt The Seed Song. Have a sing along and come up with some actions to go along, or perhaps find some sounds to play along with.
We also looked the words to the poem A Little Seed by Mabel Watts and using our percussion instruments (things that we can shake, pat, tap) we added in some sounds to accompany the words, creating a soundtrack to the poem.
Carry on composing at home have a sing along to the song (link above) or download the attached sheet which has the poem and space to add in notation for your own percussion sounds. Draw me a picture of your spring flower and send it in to music@threemilestone.cornwall.
Over this term we have been finding out about percussion instruments. Here is another percussion player, Claire from Albert’s Band which is the band at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Claire introduces us to the wonderful world of percussion, showing us the xylophone, snare drum and the marimba. We’re even given the secret to the perfect drumroll
KS2 – BRINGING IN A RHYTHM PART TO A SONG USING PERCUSSION AND BODY PERCUSSION
Great to hear your singing and see your smiling faces and also to hear all about the music and different sounds you’re making at home. Today we looked at traditional American song, first released in the 1920s ‘Mama don’t allow.’
Using sounds and percussion that we can find around the house is a great way of accompanying your singing. The body percussion in this song is in the style of ‘Hambone’ – rhythmic knee and chest slapping. This is another way of creating music from what you have available, and in this case it’s your own body!
Have a go at singing the song. Perhaps you’ll use the idea of 3 claps (or playing something 3 times) after each of the first 2 and last lines. Perhaps you’ll use the red and blue spots notation idea, finding 2 sounds and playing them along in the pattern marked. Or perhaps you’ll master the knees clapping pattern that we did together – as is demonstrated on this Sing Up film clip here Mama don’t allow body percussion
Perhaps take inspiration from this group to create a drum beat to accompany your ‘own choice’ song. Water Bottle percussion
When we are back in class together we can bring our different versions together, creating layers of different rhythms playing together.
Until we are singing together again – using the demo part of this website www.incredibox.com/
You could save your creation and send it to me at music@threemilstone.cornwall.
Happy singing and composing and I’ll see you next week.
Mrs Browning .
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