Glockenspiel’ Means Play the Bells?
Did you know the know the German word ‘Glockenspiel’ means play the bells?
This is a brand-new and exciting unit based on children learning key skills on the glockenspiel. The learning is focused around exploring and developing playing skills through the glockenspiel and creating own pieces in groups.
In this unit children will: Key Vocabulary
The children will be learning the glockenspiel – a percussion instrument key skills of playing the similar to a xylophone but made with glockenspiel and following metal plates instead of wood. rhythms and music. improvisation– something created without
The children will get to see planning or preparation, usually as part of
different musical scales and music. different notes to follow and play. scale – a set of musical notes used to play They will be learning and following rhythms from. the notes E, D and F on their own rhythm – a strong, regular pattern made by sounds. and in a group. blues – a musical genre created in the They will learn how to count in Deep South of America in 1870s. and follow steady beats. lyrics – the words to a song. The children will be listening to octave - a series of eight notes occupying and playing along with Dee Cee’s the interval and two notes, one having Blues. twice or half the frequency of vibration of
the other.
Prior Learning Key Knowledge Year 1 Voice preparation before singing Year 2 Different music genre In German the word 'glockenspiel' understanding. means 'to play the bells'. Cross Curricular Links Most percussion instruments do not Geography – locating where Glockenspiels came from on a map. produce a pitch when struck like the glockenspiel does, making it a
Key Questions unique percussion instrument. How was the glockenspiel Auguste Mustel invented the invented? glockenspiel in Paris in 1886. What other instruments are in
the glockenspiel family? Modern artists such as The Beatles
Who is a famous glockenspiel and Bruce Springsteen use the
player? glockenspiel in their music.