Targeting Music - A Year-by-Year Series for Teachers in Primary Schools

(age 6-7): In this third book of the series, the programme for Year 2 develops more sustained and challenging learning experiences. Attuned to the National Curriculum, content is organised through the musical elements: sound, silence, dynamics, rhythm, pitch, timbre, texture and structure. Introduction * MODULE 1 DYNAMICS: Lovely things * Lovely things (development lesson) * The animal kingdom * I can sing quietly * In the distance * The wheel never stops * MODULE 2 PITCH: The up down song * Little red bird: a Manx lullaby * Little red bird (development lesson) * Happy Divali * Chanukkah candles * Gentle donkey * MODULE 3 RHYTHM: Oliver Twist * Oliver Twist (development lesson) * I'm a magician * Are you sleeping? * Sur le pont d'Avignon * Poems and stories as stimuli for composing * MODULE 4 TIMBRE OR TONE QUALITY: Lots of different sounds * Lots of different sounds (development lesson) * Ting, tap, crash * Sound discoveries * Sounds from across the world * Moving mode * MODULE 5 TEXTURE: Sounds around * Sound layers * Togetherness * Building sounds * Turn the glasses over * Rainbow colours * MODULE 6 STRUCTURE: Who's that yonder * Hush little baby * John Brown's body * A ram sam sam * More rounds * Wedding day at Troldhaugen * Piano accompaniment for "The up down song"