KS1 & KS2 Composition
John Oates
AST Primary Music
Warrington Schools’ Arts & Culture Service
Tuesday 31st January 2012
Westbrook Old Hall Primary
www.topologika.com
Elements of Music
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Silence
Pitch – high or low sounds
Dynamics – loud or quiet sounds
Tempo – fast or slow music
Duration – long and short sounds
Timbre – the sound quality
Texture – different combinations/layers of
sound
• Structure – the overall plan of the music
Key Stage 1 Music
• The children create short compositions with
increasing confidence, imagination and control.
Pupils should be taught how to:
• Create musical patterns
• Explore, choose and organise sounds and musical
ideas
KS1 Music Task
Group or Class
Create musical patterns –
use the natural rhythm of
describing words to create
rhythmic or melodic
patterns.
Repeat the pattern to
create an ostinato
Bang! We’re off and breathing fast.
Moving! Racing! Fast fast fast!
Running! Chasing! Towards the end.
Puffing! Panting! Around the bend.
Look left and right I’m in the clear.
Finish line! I’ve won! The crowd they cheer.
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Explore other sounds and
organise them around the
poem. Remember to
encourage imagination and
control.
Record using invented
signs and symbols.
Useful Music Vocabulary
Ostinato – a repeated pattern that can be tuned or
untuned and forms part of an accompaniment
Pentatonic Scale – a collection of 5 musical notes (if
you start on the note C they would be – C D E G A)
Possible Structures – A B
AABB
ABACA
ABA
Key Stage 2 Music
• They improvise, and develop their own musical
compositions, in response to a variety of different
stimuli with increasing personal involvement,
independence and creativity.
Pupils should be taught how to:
• Improvise, developing rhythmic and melodic
material when performing
• Explore, choose, combine and organise musical ideas
within musical structures
KS2 Music Composition
• What is the structure?
A B A C A (three ideas)
• Explore, choose,
combine and organise
musical ideas – use
ostinati
• Allow for improvisation
– maybe one person in
the group.
• Use pentatonic scales.
• Record using Audacity
www.audacity.sourceforge.net/
Contact
01925 415544
johnoates66@yahoo.co.uk