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All Students preparing for Grade exams are
recommended to use the Hofnotes on-line
training pages to practise for the aural tests.
At
higher grades you must be able to discuss with the examiner musical
features such as texture,
form,
style, and
period of a piece of music.
My own web pages to help with these parts of the test at Grade 5+ and at
GCSE
are available
here!
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 Games
with pitch
The emphasis is
on group work not solo performance. Singing and chanting games
(Poor Dog, for example or Here I am) will usually ask children to
start at a different pitch from last time so that they are not self conscious if
they cannot find the note to start on. No-one is to be told they cannot sing!
Poor
dog
A simple tune using mainly mi and do. The lyric is sung by the group with
the 'dog' in the middle of the circle.
Children pass
the ‘bone’ round the ring in time with the pulse of the song – where it stops,
that child is the dog in the middle of the ring (Kodaly)
Poor Dog
Where's your bone?
Someone took it from my home!
Who found the bone?
I found
the bone…
Here I am
A call and response song with a simple mi and do tune
(Kodaly)
:
Here I am
Where from?
[Local town]
What’s your
trade?
Lemonade
Please come in
and give us some!
    
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