Term 6 2022
Week 2: Curiosity
The Little Mermaid Part Of Your World HD 1080p - YouTube
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Term 6 2022
Changing Me - Enjoyment
On Friday 15th July the Assembly Music is D'lion's choice.
It has a positive message. Panic! At The Disco perform their hit song "High Hopes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULUw_2CC4Y&ab_channel=MTVUK
Week 3: Democracy
Week 2: Space
Week 1: Our Wold
In 1967, Louis Armstrong sung a song titled “What a wonderful world.” Louis sings of seeing various events and natural wonders that make him smile. He sings about blooming flowers, rainbows and day and night. He also sings about people who live on the world. All this makes the world wonderful.
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World - YouTube
Term 5 2022
Respecting Ourselves - Relationships
Week 5: Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Zadok the Priest, The Queens coronation - YouTube
Week 4: Love
This week’s music was composed by ‘The Beatles’. ‘The Beatles’ were one the most famous bands who performed during the 1960s. They were ordinary young men who shook the world with their music. They influenced and inspired many musicians.
Week 3: [No Theme- SATS week]
Week 2: Kindness
Week 1: Ramadan and Eid Ul Fitr
Term 4 2022
Respecting Ourselves - Healthy Me
STEM Week: Science
(Week 6)
Week 5: Being Active
Les Percussions de Kouroussa - YouTube
This week’s is all about keeping active and what better way to do that than by dancing! One of the key elements of music is rhythm. This is the pattern of different note durations… it’s the part of music that makes your feet want to move!
One important characteristic of African Drumming is the rhythm. The rhythm helps get people dancing, especially during celebrations!
Listen to the music. Can you hear the many different rhythms? Sometimes each musician plays their own rhythm and sometimes they play the same rhythm.
Did you notice how active the musicians were in the video? Not only are they moving their arms to play the drums, but they can’t help nodding and tapping their feet to the steady pulse (known as the beat). Can you listen to this music without tapping your foot?
Week 4: Good Choices
Week 3: Proud to be Me
Week 2: Healthy Me
To be healthy we need to look after our mind and our body. Listening to music helps to keep our minds healthy. Music can be mindful and relaxing or entertaining and fun. To help our bodies stay healthy we eat vegetables as part of our balanced diet. This week's assembly music combines these two things!!
Here is the Vegetable orchestra where all the instruments played have been made out of vegetables! What vegetables can you see? What instruments do the vegetables remind you of?
Week 1: Favourite Books
BBC's Proms Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter - YouTube
Music Title: Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter
Composer: John Williams
Film Music
Written: 2002
This week we are celebrating books! You may recognise this music from the film Harry Potter. The film is based on a popular book written by the author J.K.Rowling.
A very famous film composer called John Williams was asked to create music for the film. Williams was already famous for composing the Star Wars music and other pieces. He also composed the music for the BFG which some of you will know.
When he was asked to create the music for Harry Potter, he needed to read the books. He used his imagination and described the characters with music. This piece is titled Hedwig's Theme. Hedwig is an owl from the Harry Potter books. How do you think Williams has describes the owl using music?
Can you hear the quick ascending and descending scales on the violins? These strings might represent the owl taking off and landing. Perhaps the grand tune played on the oboe and flute represent the owl soaring through the air? What do you think?
Term 3 2022
Determination – Dreams and Goals
Week 1: Determination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfxDbjtfBM
Musician: Evelyn Glennie
This week’s artist is deaf musician called Evelyn Glennie. She loved music as a child but had lost her hearing when she was 12 years old. However, she was determined not to let this stop her from enjoying music. Evelyn found that she could still enjoy music by feeling the vibrations instruments create with different parts of her body.
Evelyn was determined to become a professional musician despite not being able to hear what she was playing. Her determination allowed to become an expert musician and percussionist.
Evelyn never wears shoes when she is playing. What do you think this is?
Week 2: Respect
Aretha Franklin R.E.S.P.E.C.T LIVE 1991 - YouTube
Composer: Otis Redding
Singer: Aretha Franklin
Song Title: R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Period: Contempoary/ soul
Written: 1965
Released by Franklin: 1967
Video: 1991
Aretha Franklin is one of the most popular and influential singers there has ever been. Many female and male singers take inspiration from her music.
In this week’s assembly, Aretha Franklin asks for respect. She says she doesn’t need anything else. Just respect.
Listen to the structure in the chorus. Can you hear the ‘call and response’ feature used?
Aretha solo sings, “All I’m asking for is some respect’. The chorus reply with “Just a little bit”.
This is a jazz feature and originates from African music.
Week 3: Openness
Buena Vista Social Club en concert au Printemps de Pérouges - YouTube
Musicians: Buenos Vista Social Club
Song Title: Chan Chan
Cuban Music
Released: 1997
The assembly music this week was written and performed by Cuban and American musicians. These musicians had a goal to share the music and culture of Cuba with America and Britain.
To achieve this goal, the American and Cuban Musicians needed to open to each other’s music and cultures. They respected and listened to each other and combined their ideas to create Cuban music which other cultures could understand and enjoy.
Week 4: Nurture
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Minuet and Trio in G, K1 - YouTube
Composer: Mozart (Lived between 1756 - 1791)
Music Title: Minuet and Trio in G
Period: Classical
Mozart's talents as a musician and composer were recognised from a young age. He was nurtured by his family and teachers to reach his potential. He was supported and encouraged to do what he loved and Mozart became one of the best musicians in the world. His music is still enjoyed 200 years after his death.
The assembly Music today was written by Mozart when he was only 5 years old (that is the age of a child in reception).
We need to nurture, support and encourage each so we too can exceed at our talents.
Week 5: Enjoyment
Abba - Thank You For The Music - YouTube
Musicians: Abba
Song Title: Thank you for the Music
Period: Contemporary
Recorded: 1977
Abba was a band from Sweden who performed 50 years ago in 1970s.
In their song 'Thank you for the Music', they sing about enjoying their talent, enjoying writing music and singing, enjoying making others happy and enjoying life.
Week 6: Courage
Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Cassado: Danze Final from Cello Suite at BBC Young Musician 2016 - YouTube
Musician: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cellist)
Music Title: Danze Suite by Cassado
This video shows the young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason competing at the 'Young Musician of the Year' competition. The competition sees school aged children (including primary school aged children) perform in different music halls in front of large audiences. The final performances are shown on TV to thousands of people.
Sheki Kanneh-Mason started learning the violin from a very young age and by the age of 6 he switched to cello. Kanneh-Mason joined a youth orchestra for children from ethnic minorities. This helped him believe that all children can be part of the classical world.
The young teenager formed a classical music group with his brother and 4 sisters (who played instruments ranging from the piano, the cello, the violin, the viola and the guitar). They called themselves the Kanneh-Masons and competed on Britain's got Talent!
This gave Kanneh-Mason the courage to enter 'The Young Musician of the Year' Competition when he was 17. He was the first black musician to win the competition. Mason needed courage to play challenging music in front of strangers on TV! After winning the competition, he needed more courage when he was asked to perform at Prince Harry and Megan's wedding (in front of the queen!)
Term 2
Week 3: Exploration
Terry Riley & Friends – 'A Rainbow in Curved Air' – Boiler Room Amsterdam Live Performance - YouTube
Music Title: A Rainbow in Curved Air
Composer: Terry Riley (American)
Period: Modernism: minimalism
Written: 1969
Over thousands of years people have been exploring music. Over the years, different timbres and sounds have been explored, hundreds of instruments have been invented and many combinations of pitches have resulted in millions of songs. Our exploration of music and what we have discovered can be heard when ever we turn on a radio or tv.
The assembly music today is called ‘A Rainbow in Curved Air’ written by Terry Riley. His exploration of music led him to create a new sound and style of music called minimalism. He used a sequence of notes which no one had ever done before. His music inspired many musicians to come.
Week 4: Diversity
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049 - Sato | Netherlands Bach Society - YouTube
Music Title: Brandenburg Concerto no. 4
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (German)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1721
This piece of music is one of the most famous compositions in classical music ever written. It was written by a man named Johann Sebastian Bach. Listen to the music – you should be able to hear lots of different instruments. They all sound very different (violins, flutes, cello and harpsichord). Bach understood that all instruments have their own sound so he wrote a different part for each instrument. No instrument is playing the same tune but all instruments are working together to create one piece of music.
Each instrument’s individuality is celebrated but also equal to the other instruments.
Week 5: Unity
Dvorak - New World Symphony Part 1 - Proms 2010 - YouTube
Music Title: New World Symphony
Composer: Antonin Leopold Dvorak (Czech)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893
Music can bring everyone together in unity. We come together to celebrate festivals, families or to remember loved ones and past events. As a school we come together every week and listen to special assembly music before we celebrate our learning and to look forward to our futures. The assembly music that has brought us together this week in unity was written by a man called Antonin Leopold Dvorak. The music is about America and many people come together to listen to his music to celebrate the country. It is one of the most popular pieces of music ever written
Week 6: Peace
Week 7: Christmas
WNO | Sleigh Ride | Leroy Anderson - YouTube
Song Titile: Sleigh Ride
Composer: Leroy Anderson (American)
Period: Mordern
Written: 1948
This orchestral music 'Sleigh Ride" is often associated with Christmas and paints a picture of a sleigh being pulled through snow by a horse. Can you hear the horse clip-clopping and a whip used to get the horse moving. In most performances, a percussionist provides these sounds on blocks and the side of a drum (drum rim). Toward the end of the piece, a trumpet imitates the sound of a horse whinnying.
Term 1
Week 7 - Harmony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMGqdUqPnmo
This week we have ‘The young person’s guide to the orchestra’ by Benjamin Britten. It was written for children to introduce them to the orchestra and the sounds each instrument makes.
BBC Symphony Orchestra play "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Benjamin Britten
Week 6 - Fairness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak85S5KZoKE
The composer has taken a very old traditional English tune, thought to date back to the Elizabethan times, and turned it into a piece of classical music.
Ralph Vaughan Williams "Fantasia on Greensleeves"