KS3 · Music · Year 7
Music Alone Shall Live
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Your learning goal
I can sing Music Alone Shall Live in unison and a round using singing breath and vocal onset to support a good tone.
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Music Alone Shall Live: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can sing Music Alone Shall Live in unison and a round using singing breath and vocal onset to support a good tone.
Key learning points
- To create good vocal onset, we use our breath to initiate a sound by pushing air through our voices from our bellies.
- Singing the melody for Music Alone Shall Live in unison and in a round.
- Singing with a good vocal onset.
Words to know
- vocal onset
- the way that we initiate a sound when singing; good vocal onset uses breath to initiate a sound by pushing air from the belly
- melody
- the main tune or recognisable part in a piece of music
- phrase
- a section of a melody, often 2 or 4 bars long
- round
- a song structure where multiple groups sing the same melody but start at different times
Common mistakes
I should use my throat to start a note.
Using the throat creates a tight, harsh sound. To create a clear, controlled tone, we should use a singing breath to initiate the sound, pushing the sound from our bellies.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Changing the dynamics appropriately can also help add expression to the performance. Discuss with pupils how as a group they might use dynamics to make the performance more musical.