Music Unit of Study: Handa’S Surprise (Rhythm) Linked Literature: Handa’S Surprise

Year: 2 Subject: Music Unit of Study: Handa’s Surprise (Rhythm) Linked Literature: Handa’s Surprise

Topics Water Handa’s Surprise Chronology

Vocabulary I need to know (continued): I need to do: Prior knowledge:

how long or short a note, phrase, section, or duration Listen, identify and recognise different composition lasts. The pulse of a piece of music helps you to keep in time rhythm patterns Children already understand that music can be written down and that different the pattern of long and short sounds as you move rhythm with the beat. Pulse is a steady beat like a ticking Correctly pitch a response through the song symbols and letters indicate when to play clock or your heartbeat. It can be measured in time by loudly and softly. They know that the world’s second largest and second most Identify instrumental timbres of Africa percussion instruments make a sound populous continent. counting the number of beats per minute (BPM). non-European music Rhythm is the pattern of long and short sounds as you when struck or shook and have practised Kenya an equatorial country in East Africa. creating their own body percussion. move through the song. pitch The highness or lowness of a sound Tuned in- An instrument that produces one or more indefinite Children will explore the story of Handa, who is a part Children understand that there are both strument notes. tuned and untuned percussion Music of the Luo tribe in Kenya and sets out on a journey to instruments and that different percussion - Timbre the tone or unique quality of a sound her friend Akeyo, bearing fruit as a gift. They will instruments have different tones. an African musical instrument that consists of a explore the syllables in the names of different fruits wooden or gourd resonator and a varying number mbira of tuned metal or wooden strips that vibrate when and learn to play the rhythms of the names of these plucked fruits as part of a call and response pattern. a large xylophone with hollow gourds as resonators, balafon used in West African music

a West African musical instrument shaped like a Children will explore the different timbre of African kora lute, with 21 strings passing over a high bridge, and played like a harp. music and learn about some African musical instruments. They will learn how to replicate the I need to know: Study Guide Guide Study sound of the balafon on the glockenspiel and be able to Music from different countries identify and play the notes C, E and G. around the world sounds different because it uses different Children will listen to music performed by Kenyan instruments and different rhythms. groups and learn to listen to, identify and clap the Kenya is a country in a continent pulse of different songs. They will learn about how called Africa and a lot of African people living in the slums of Nairobi have made their music uses drums, voices, and other percussion instruments that are own percussion instruments to perform together and different to those that we use in the will make their own instruments on which to play. UK.

Can I identify instrumental timbre of Can I recognise different rhythm patterns Can I listen to, internalise, and Can I perform rhythms accurately Can I maintain pulse within a group non-European music and Can I follow a musical structure? and use pulse to keep in time? correctly pitch a response? perform different rhythm patterns? in a group? performance?