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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!

 

 

 

 

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

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Last updated on: 03/01/2012