Lesson Four – Painting Music

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to create and perform short pieces of music to match the themes and ideas expressed in a painting by a famous artist.

The class can identify and list some of the different sounds that might be heard when visiting a scene in a landscape painting to use when composing their own matching musical compositions.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to create and perform short pieces of music to match the themes and ideas expressed in a painting by a famous artist

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of display posters to identify and describe some of the sounds that can reflect objects and places used in different paintings and a template to select and record sounds that they can hear in a painting by a famous artist using picture and word clues.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to create sounds to represent life in a landscape painting by Van Gogh using percussion instruments to match selected vocabulary words.

This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to investigate the style and structure of different compositions by a famous musician and create sounds to represent a particular place or landscape. There are teaching activities for shared learning, activity worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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