This course has been designed for the age group 8 to 10 years of age. Children at this age have clear preference on their musical choices and this program will offer students a platform outside the classical discipline. Children can learn and enjoy music without affiliation to a particular genre. Singing and understanding music through simple activities can be appealing to a wide range of children.
Course Format
Batch Size: 3 (Online Classes), 15 (InCampus Classes),
Duration: 12 weeks, one 45 mins lesson per week
Objectives
- Practice swaras with vowel sounds and work towards accuracy and stability in pitch
- Explore patterns with swaras
- Revise the concept of Texture and learn how to sing a song in a Round.
- Understand the form of a composition
- Learn 5 or more age relevant songs in English, Hindi and one Indian/Foreign language song
- Ages 8+ to 10
- Completion of GWM104B
Introduction to the world music
Rhythm & tempo
- Strong Beat
- Keeping a rhythm pattern
- Beat grouping
- Singing slow and fast
- Note values
Pitch
- Swaras
- Melody
- Swara Mapping
Dynamic
- Loud and soft - expressive singing
Performance
- Preparing for performance
- Final Performance
World Culture
- World music
- Turkey Song
- Garba Song
- Diwali Song
Dynamic
- Loud Vs Soft
- Staccato Legato
tarse nayana
Grumbling Song
Musical form
Texture
Students will be able to :
- Able to sing the seven swaras with more accuracy and stability in pitch
- Create swara patterns and sing them in pitch
- Analyse the texture of a given piece of music
- Explore polyphonic texture by singing a song in a Round
- Identify the form of a song as Verse Chorus
- Sing a repertoire of songs in English, Hindi and an Indian/ Foreign language.
- Catch a glimpse of a region, its culture, language, food, traditional attire and much more, through an Indian regional language song or a foreign language song
