Celebrate St.Patrick’s Day in your primary school classroom with these 8 free lessons on Irish music. With this pack your class will be learning about the Irish musical culture, listening to different Irish artists and performing traditional songs and pieces. Included in the pack: Background and history of Irish music Child-friendly radio show and playlist Perform sing-along versions of popular Irish folk songs Learn about and hear different traditional Irish instruments. Learn to identify different types of Irish tunes such as jig and reels https://dabbledoo.com/p/irish-music-for-schools

This is a short performance piece that will quickly and easily have your class performing Pachelbel's canon. The key has been changed to C, to facilitate any tuned percussion instruments you have and to make the yellow singing part in a more comfortable register for singing.

This lesson is a simple way to get your class into singing using just do, re, mi. It is a short and fun exercise that can be repeated on a regular basis to get your class accustomed to tonic sol-fa singing.

This activity works as a short introduction to animated musical notation; using moving shapes and colour to get your class making music together and exploring different musical sounds and ideas.

Short introduction to Irish music followed by a play-along Irish Polka! Choose a colour and follow the animated notation on the screen. Ideal for performing with a large group, using whatever instruments you can find!

This combination of Lesson Plan and worksheets should provide a few classes worth of music making. The important thing is to allow the class freedom to create whatever sounds they wish but always encourage critical listening when they are performing, particularly in a group situation. This lesson plan can work with either the voice or selected instruments.

This Lesson plan uses a feature unique to DabbledooMusic, an animated musical clock that will help your class organise their music making. Keep an eye on the website for new versions of the clock Ill soon post a very special version in which the students can fill in the colours on the whiteboard!

Graphic Notation, Composition, Group Performance

Summary: Level 3 adds an inner circle of colours to the previous clock. This means that students will perform two parts at the same time and have the option of eight different sounds. Learning Objectives: Identify colours, numbers of colours. Choose a sound to represent each colour for both the inside and outside circle. Perform a short piece using their chosen sounds. Use dynamics (loud and soft) Perform using crescendo and decrescendo.

Summary: In this section the class will create their own two part composition, arranging colours and sounds using the clocks' interactive elements. Learning Objectives: Choose contrasting vocal sounds represent each colour, red, blue, yellow and green. Create a musical score using the interactive clock. Find different ways of playing the same instruments. Perform a short piece using their chosen colours and sounds. Explore changes in duration and repetition.

Summary: This activity works as a short introduction to animated musical notation; using moving shapes and colour to get your class making music together and exploring different musical sounds and ideas. Learning Objectives: Identify colours and numbers of colours. Choose a sound to represent each colour. perform a short piece using their chosen sounds. Use dynamics (loud and soft). Perform using crescendo and decrescendo.

Summary: After the introduction to animated musical notation in parts 1 and 2, this section lets the class to create and compose their own composition on separate worksheets allowing them to work individually or in small groups. Learning Objectives: Identify two different sounds from the same instrument that they can use in a short composition. Create symbols to represent these sounds; their own graphic notation. Fill in the worksheet and perform their piece in pairs, small groups or as a class.

Summary: After the introduction to animated musical notation in part 1, this section allows the class to create their own composition, arranging colours and sounds using the clocks' interactive elements. Learning Objectives: Choose contrasting sounds represent each colour, red and blue. Create a musical score using the interactive clock. Perform a short piece using their chosen colours and sounds. Perform a piece in A B A structure.

This is a short performance piece you can play with your class, based around 2 notes. C and A. The red group can play these notes on any tuned instruments you have and the other colours can use any other instruments available to you.