Page 4 - Music Mats
P. 4
Rivers LKS2
Vocabulary Know that
Programme Music that tells a story without words. Vltava is a part of Ma Vlast and tells the story of the journey of River Vltava
music from two springs into the centre of Prague.
Nationalism Being proud of your country Vltava is based on a folk tune and the same folk tune is the basis of the Israeli
sometimes wanting independence. National anthem.
Polka Eastern European folk dance. Vltava became a symbol of hope during the Nazi occupation of
Rondo Musical form of ABACADA. Czechoslovakia in WW2 and was later banned from being played by the
Nazis in 1941.
Musical Timbre, texture, pitch, duration,
Polka was originally a Bohemian folk dance begun in the middle of the 19th
dimensions structure, tempo, dynamics. century.
Sequence A pattern that is repeated again either Polka dance music was brought over to America after WW2 with refugees.
higher or lower.
Folk music Music passed down orally. Know what Know how
Glissando Continuous slide upwards or Musical dimensions can be heard To keep a steady beat to a Polka
downwards. in each section of Vltava. dance.
Tremolo Rapid repetition of a note or notes Instruments to choose to To copy Polka rhythms.
close together. represent parts of the Vltava story.
To play a glissando.
Composers and their music What musical dimensions to use to
represent parts of the Vltava story. To play a tremolo.
Smetana - Vltava
Johann Straus II - Thunder and lightening polka Order to place sounds in to To build up a musical texture in
Josef Straus - Pizzicato polka achieve the best musical structure. different ways.
Frank Yankovic - HokeyPokey Polka
Armand Marsick - La Source To write to notate ideas. To play a melody in different ways.
Hammerstein/Kern - Old man river
Israeli National Anthem Hatikvah To play a musical sequence.
To play a part in a musical piece
knowing when to come in and stop.
To control the dynamics tempo and
duration of what is played.
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