Watch the video above for a demonstration of how to teach question and answer form through movement
This activity uses movement to develop aural skills and explore the question and answer structure in a piece of music. Learning through the body is a direct way for students to experience and identify the structure of phrases and music.
You might like to model this to your class by being the leader, asking a question with a certain movement, and then having your class respond either one by one, or as a group, with their own movements. Have students pair up to complete this activity, one student to begin as the leader and the other as the follower, and then swap roles.
Explore this activity further by trying it with different types of music with a Q & A structure. Extend it by asking students to identify the variations between the question and answer phrases and to sing or play them.
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Develop aural skills by exploring and imitating sounds, pitch and rhythm patterns using voice, movement and body percussion ACAMUM080
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Develop aural skills by exploring, imitating and recognising elements of music including dynamics, pitch and rhythm patterns ACAMUM084
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Explore dynamics and expression, using aural skills to identify and perform rhythm and pitch patterns ACAMUM088
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Analyse composers’ use of the elements of music and stylistic features when listening to and interpreting music ACAMUR097
PDHPE: explore locomotor & non-locomotor movements
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