Year 6 Music - February 2022

Date: 22nd Feb 2022 @ 2:08pm

Year 6

In music, Year 6 have been learning about ternary structures.  We listened to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ‘March of the Toy Soldiers’ which is a ternary piece.

If like us, you don’t know anything about what a ternary structure is, it is quite simply an ABA structure; piece of music for voice or instrument with three different sections.  Section A are the same and section B is different.

We used this video to help us understand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hid5noAWvMI

We then used the Songmaker website to create our own ternary pieces.

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker

The children had a great time structuring a ternary piece of music on the i-Pads whilst experimenting with the dynamic and the tempo too. They are looking forward to composing some ternary pieces on the glockenspiels.