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This document outlines a Year 6 lesson plan focused on Chinese music, including its instruments and features. Students will learn about the eight categories of Chinese musical instruments and explore the Pentatonic scale through composing tasks. The lesson also includes listening activities to analyze famous pieces of Chinese music and considerations for suitable background music for a play.

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Y6 Chinese Music - 4

This document outlines a Year 6 lesson plan focused on Chinese music, including its instruments and features. Students will learn about the eight categories of Chinese musical instruments and explore the Pentatonic scale through composing tasks. The lesson also includes listening activities to analyze famous pieces of Chinese music and considerations for suitable background music for a play.

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Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School Name: ( )

Date: Class:

Year 6 - Chinese Music Comments:

Chinese Music

In this lesson students will learn about the Chinese musical


instruments and the main features of Chinese music.

Learning Objectives:
* To understand the main features of Chinese traditional music.
* To learn the different types of musical instruments and how they are
played.
* To explore the musical elements of traditional Chinese music.

Introduction:
Music has been part of Chinese culture for over 9000 years. In ancient China, music was
performed at banquets or at ritual sacrifices. It was believed that music could purify people's
minds. Chinese traditional music is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles, there are
plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums.

Types of instruments:
Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as bā yīn (八
音). The eight categories are stone, earth, bamboo, metal, skin, silk, wood and gourd.

Write down what material(s) these instruments are made out of and how the sounds
are being produced.

Dizi 笛子 Sheng 笙 Erhu 二胡


Pipa 琵琶 Guqin 古琴 Guzheng 古筝

Bianzhong 編鐘 Gong 鑼 Tanggu 堂鼓

Scales:
Chinese music mainly uses the Pentatonic scale, a scale that consists of 5 notes:

There’s also different types of 7 notes scale as well:


Composing Tasks:

1.​ Create a 4 bars musical cliché for one of the main characters in your
play using the Pentatonic scale :

●​ What sort of character is this? What instrument would you use for your cliché?
Write down your ideas:

●​ In your cliché above, add articulations and tempo markings to help express your
ideas.

2.​ Now, let’s try to create another 4 bars musical cliché for one of the main
characters in your play using the 7 notes scale:

●​ What sort of character is this? What instrument would you use for your cliché?
Write down your ideas:

●​ In your cliché above, add articulations and tempo markings to help express your
ideas.
Listening Task:
Listen to some famous pieces of Chinese Music and fill in the
table below:

Piece Main Mood Tempo Dynamics


Name Instruments

Horse Racing 賽馬

Ambush from Ten Sides


十面埋伏

High Mountain and


Running River 高山流
水

Spring on Xiang River


春到湘江

Dragon Soaring and


Tiger Leaping
龍騰虎躍

梁祝 Butterfly Lovers

金蛇狂舞 / Crazy Dance


of Golden Snake

Now think about your play, what sort of music would be suitable as
background music? Write down your ideas below:

Mood:

Tempo:

Instrumentations:

Dynamics:

Are any of the examples above suitable for your play? If not, search for some
Chinese music online.

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