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Unit: China
This unit explores the pentatonic scale
through traditional Chinese music.
The children explore different ways of
notating pitch as they sing, read and
compose music, ending with a musical
celebration of Chinese New Year.
Click here to view the plans:
Medium term plan
1st lesson plan
2nd lesson plan
3rd lesson plan
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Unit: China
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Musical focus: Pitch
Subject link: Mathematics
medium term Plan
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lesson Learning
• Understanding the
pentatonic scale
Teaching Activities
White snow in sunny spring
Listen to a piece of Chinese pentatonic music played on the pipa
Singing pentatonic melodies
Practise singing melodies that use the pentatonic scale
Learning SUPPORT
To become familiar with the
sound of the pentatonic scale,
encourage children to sing as
well as play when they copy or
compose pentatonic melodies
in activity 3.
Playing pentatonic melodies
Play then compose pentatonic melodies on tuned percussion
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lesson Learning
• Using graphic notation
with the pentatonic scale
• Understanding pitch
through composing,
notating and reading
graphic notation
• Performing a pentatonic
song with tuned and
untuned accompaniment
Teaching Activities
Pentatonic bricks
Recognise pentatonic pitch movement in a listening game
Build your own
Compose and perform pentatonic melodies
Chinese wall
Learning SUPPORT
Before the children work
individually, demonstrate
composing a pentatonic melody
to the class in activity 2 ‘Build
your own’. Show them how they
need to select one pitch per
column to play the melody from
left to right across the score.
Perform a pentatonic song including tuned and untuned percussion
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lesson Learning
• Exploring the pentatonic
scale
• Playing in steps using
graphic notation
Teaching Activities
Gung Hay Fat Choy
Learn to sing with a pentatonic melody
New Year accompaniments
Learn percussion accompaniments to perform with the song
Learning SUPPORT
Practise each Gung Hay Fat Choy
accompaniment part individually
as the class sings the song so that
the players are confident about
when to play, before combining
all four parts.
Gung Hay Fat Choy performance
Explore additional percussion sounds to perform with the song
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Unit: China
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Musical focus: Pitch
Subject link: Mathematics
Lesson Plan
What you will
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Lesson learning
• Understanding the pentatonic scale
• Sets of tuned instruments, eg
chime bars, xylophones –
notes C D E G A
Teaching Activities
White snow in sunny spring
Vocabulary
Listen to a piece of Chinese pentatonic music played on the pipa
• Chordophone
• Pentatonic
Children:
–– listen to and identify traditional Chinese music;
• Pitch
–– listen to pentatonic music.
Singing pentatonic melodies
Practise singing melodies that use the pentatonic scale
Children:
–– watch a movie to echo-sing pentatonic melodies;
–– make hand movements to indicate the pitch.
Playing pentatonic melodies
Play then compose pentatonic melodies on tuned percussion
Children:
–– copy pentatonic melodies on tuned instruments;
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–– compose pentatonic melodies;
–– notate and read pentatonic melodies using note names.
Play the Singing melodies audio
or Playing pentatonic melodies
demonstration movie and ask
individuals to try to play the
sung melodies by ear on the
repeat on tuned percussion.
Support: To become familiar with the sound of the pentatonic scale, encourage children to
sing as well as play when they copy or compose pentatonic melodies in activity 3.
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7-8
Musical focus: Pitch
Subject link: Mathematics
Lesson Plan
Lesson learning
• Understanding pitch through composing, notating and reading
graphic notation
• Performing a pentatonic song with tuned and untuned
accompaniment
What you will
need
• Tuned instruments – notes
CDEGA
• Untuned percussion, eg
shakers, cymbals
Teaching Activities
Pentatonic bricks
Vocabulary
Recognise pentatonic pitch movement in a listening game
Children:
–– listen to pentatonic melodies and match each with graphic notation;
• Pentatonic
• Pitch
–– read graphic notation to play pentatonic melodies.
Build your own
Compose and perform pentatonic melodies
Children:
–– individually compose pentatonic melodies using pitch notation;
–– play composed melodies from pitch notation, individually and as a class.
Chinese wall
Perform a pentatonic song including tuned and untuned percussion
Children:
–– learn a pentatonic song;
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–– play pentatonic phrases in a song;
–– create untuned percussion accompaniment for a song;
–– perform a pentatonic song with tuned and untuned accompaniment.
Support: Before the children work individually, demonstrate composing a pentatonic melody to
the class in activity 2 ‘Build your own’. Show them how they need to select one pitch per column
to play the melody from left to right across the score.
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Invite individuals to work out
the melody for the third line of
the song by ear using notes
C D E G A.
(Answer: E G A G E D E C D.)
Perform the complete song all
the way through as you did in
activity 3, but without the
backing track, with confident
individuals performing the
melody to support the singers
throughout.
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Unit: China
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Musical focus: Pitch
Subject link: Mathematics
Lesson Plan
What you will
need
Lesson learning
• Exploring the pentatonic scale
• Chime bars – notes D E G A
• Playing in steps using graphic notation
• Other tuned instruments –
notes C D E G A
Teaching Activities
Gung Hay Fat Choy
• Untuned percussion, eg wood
blocks, cymbals, Indian bells,
shakers
Vocabulary
Learn to sing a song with a pentatonic melody
• Pentatonic
Children:
–– learn abut the cultural context of a Chinese song;
• Glissando
–– learn to sing a pentatonic song.
New year accompaniments
Learn percussion accompaniments to perform with the song
Children:
–– learn tuned and untuned accompaniments to a pentatonic song in four groups;
–– follow a score to accompany a song;
–– perform a pentatonic song with four accompaniments.
Gung Hay Fat Choy performance
Explore additional percussion sounds to perform with the song
Children:
–– develop percussion accompaniments for a pentatonic song;
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LEARNING
–– perform a pentatonic song with tuned and untuned instrumental
accompaniment.
Perform the song to an
audience.
Support: Practise each accompaniment part individually as the class sings the song so that the
players are confident about when to play, before combining all four parts.
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