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Orchestral melodies

This unit develops knowledge and understanding of the instruments of the orchestra. Pupils also learn to play a famous orchestral melody on the keyboard, learning to play and move out of position and they learn to identify from C to octave C on the stave through performance.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

Prior knowledge

Pupils can play a melody on the keyboard in the C position
Pupils know that practising something slowly to develop fluency is a good approach to learning a piece of music.
Pupils know the meaning of the following elements: tempo, pitch and dynamics
Pupils know the terms melody and phrase
Pupils know how timbre affects the sound of music
Pupils may have been introduced to the notation C to G and crotchets, minims and semibreves
Pupils may have experience of putting a melody and accompaniment together in pairs or with two hands

Source curriculum references

Play and perform confidently in a range of solo and ensemble contexts using their voice, playing instruments musically, fluently and with accuracy and expression
Use staff and other relevant notations appropriately and accurately in a range of musical styles, genres and traditions
Identify and use the interrelated dimensions of music expressively and with increasing sophistication, including use of tonalities, different types of scales and other musical devices
Listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of music from great composers and musicians
Develop a deepening understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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