Year 5 Orchestra Trip

On the 21st November, Year 5 travelled to the Barbican to watch the London Symphony Orchestra perform Alice Through The Looking Glass.

The children enjoyed singing along to the songs they had learned beforehand and especially enjoyed the orchestra's performance of the Star Wars theme tune.

Year 2 visit the London Symphony Orchestra!

 This week Year 2 went on a trip to the Barbican Centre to see the London Symphony Orchestra play. The children saw the show 'I Need My Monster' and were able to see a variety of musical instruments that the children will be learning about this half term.

Music in Year 6

Three Ideas!

Year 6 have started preparing for their music trip, later this term, to see the London Symphony Orchestra.

We have revised our rhythm and pitch reading to learn fragments of a piece of music.  

Using these 3 ideas (Bass, middle and melody) we will play an ensemble piece.  

Once we have learnt these ideas, we will start to alter them to compose our own music.

This link will take you to the LSO play website where you can hear one of the pieces of music that year 6 are going to be studying this term.

https://play.lso.co.uk/performances/Ravels-Bolero 

For the first part of this term we are using ideas from 'Orawa' by the Polish composer Wojciech Kilar.  The music has a repetative pattern and tells the story of a river.

Can you work out the note pitches that year 6 have been using?