A simple way to feel 3/4 time

Lullabies are typically in 3/4 time due to the swaying, lulling feel that music in 3 tends to have. This activity encourages students to feel 3/4 time along to Brahms’ Lullaby through simple actions or movements, counting and body percussion.

Students can mirror the actions in the video first until they’re confident to create their own actions and body percussion patterns with a partner. Encourage them to be creative and to discover which ways are most effective at helping them feel 3. Try it out with different pieces of music in 3/4 (fast, slow etc) and compare how this changes the feel or the types of actions they create. 

Music Outcomes

F-2

Develop aural skills by exploring and imitating sounds, pitch and rhythm patterns using voice, movement and body percussion ACAMUM080

3-4

Develop aural skills by exploring, imitating and recognising elements of music including dynamics, pitch and rhythm patterns ACAMUM084

5-6

Explore dynamics and expression, using aural skills to identify and perform rhythm and pitch patterns ACAMUM088

Links to other learning areas

Humanities & Social Sciences: explore and learn lullabies from around the world, note the similarities and differences. How does culture and language influence them?

Humanities/ History: Research composer Johannes Brahms and the Romantic period during which he composed.

Mathematics: explore patterns in 3 – skip counting on and off the decade; visual and other patterns in 3; shapes ie. triangles; tessellating 3 pattern.

Dance/Visual Arts: explore how patterns of 3 can be translated into dance movements and/or visual artworks.  

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