Music in Worship Presentation

RE
Worship
Year One
RE | Year 5 | Worship | Music | Lesson 2
Aim
• To reflect upon how music makes us feel and why it is used for religious worship.
Success
Success Criteria
Criteria
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Words, Words, Words
Choose the words that you think are linked to being ‘worthy’:
special devotion good honourable respected
appreciation worthless unworthy admirable
praiseworthy deserving evil undeserving
substandard disrespect excellent trustworthy
valuable worthwhile divine pleasing
invaluable defective precious inadequate
insufficient priceless great wonderful
respect reverence unsatisfactory cherished
prized treasured dishonour awe
glorify exaltation hate honour
love offering praise treasured
Music
Can you imagine a world without music?
Music can be used to express or communicate emotion:

happiness, fear, etc.
We don’t all feel the same way when we hear a piece of music.
Sometimes we are affected by our own experiences, where we
are when we hear the music, our own beliefs and our own
musical tastes.
celebrations Are there any songs or pieces of music that you

happy memories associate with certain times in your life?
holidays
Are there any pieces of music and/or songs you
favourite films already link to worship or a certain religion?
times with friends

or relatives
Worship
Islam
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Worship
Judaism
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Worship
Christian
Worship
Christian
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Worship
Sikhism
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Worship
Hinduism
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Worship
Buddhism
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Music in Worship
Each group will have a set of Music in Worship Cards.
Read the cards one at a time with your partner and complete your Music in
Worship Activity Sheet. The information on the cards will tell you how each
religion uses voice and instruments in worship.
What are the similarities and differences?

Worship
Islam
Muslims recite surahs (chapters)

from the Qur’an.
A call to prayer is a single voice using

rhythm and tone.
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Worship
Judaism
Songs are based on the scriptures.
Reading from the Torah is chanted.
Prayers are said to tunes.
Some Jewish music uses instruments (but

not on the Sabbath).
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Worship
Christian
There are many types of hymns
Christian music.
choirs
singing
psalms
Worship
Christian
instruments dancing
praise raising hands
shouting out clapping
reflective
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Worship
Sikhism
Hymns from the Guru instruments
Granth Sahib are chanted.
percussion
kirtan (singing)
praise
congregational prayers
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Worship
Hinduism
classical music
instruments
mantras
bell
bhajan (devotional song)
kirtan (call and

response, chanting and
dance)
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Worship
Buddhism
Buddhists chant religious texts.
It is sometimes accompanied
by instruments.
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Musical Response
Listen to each piece of music/chanting.
While listening, complete the Music Response Activity

Sheet, jotting down how it makes you feel or what it
makes you think of.
After listening to each piece,

give it a score to show which
one you liked the best and the
least.
Music impacts the way people feel

and think and it is for this very
reason that music/chanting is used in
religious worship.
What Do You Worship?
In pairs, identify the religions being spoken
about in each of the six examples.
1. Judaism
In which religion is most of the service sung or chanted?
2. Which religion uses rhythm of the voice and tonal variations in the voice rather than
2. Islam
instruments or singing?
3. Which religion involves sitting on the floor and listening to chanting as part of their
3. Buddhism
worship?
4. Christianity
Which religion has hymns, psalms, instruments and choirs in their worship?
5. Hinduism
Which religion has words, music, dance and silence as part of their worship?
6. Which religion has their singing accompanied by harmonium, cymbals, sitar and
6. Sikhism
violin?
Aim
• To reflect upon how music makes us feel and why it is used for religious worship.
Success
Success Criteria
Criteria
•• IStatement
can identify 1how
Lorem ipsum
different dolor
religions usesit amet,
music consectetur
within adipiscing
their worship. elit.
• I can explain similarities and differences in how music is used
• inStatement
worship. 2
• Sub statement
• I can explore the link between how music makes people feel and religious worship.

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Music can be used to express or communicate emotion:

celebrations Are there any songs or pieces of music that you

times with friends

Photo courtesy of cchana (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence

What are the similarities and differences?

Muslims recite surahs (chapters)

A call to prayer is a single voice using

Reading from the Torah is chanted.

Prayers are said to tunes.

Some Jewish music uses instruments (but

praise raising hands

shouting out clapping

Photo courtesy of cchana (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence

bhajan (devotional song)

kirtan (call and

Buddhists chant religious texts.

While listening, complete the Music Response Activity

After listening to each piece,

Music impacts the way people feel

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