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November 2014
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The final episode of this series demonstrates processes for students to follow to create their own musical compositions, as well as provides historical and cultural contexts to develop music appreciation and understanding.
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We look at differing song writing processes used by three groups of people and follow the craft of song writing from the initial idea or trigger, through setbacks and changes to the final performance.
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Beginning with a poem about the wind, students identify sound words in the poem in order to explore the concepts of tone colour, a sound score and graphic notation.
October 2014
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Different features of sound production, including duration, dynamics and tempo, are explored in a quest to produce sounds that enhance the meaning of a story.
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Body percussion: an important tool for understanding music and pre-instrumental skill development. Its repertoire is transferred to found instruments ie rubbish bin lids, tins and sticks, and a composition is developed.
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Movement can be a wonderful way to understand and respond to music. Students work with a piece in 3 beat metre, using body percussion to explore musical ideas.
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The use of layering repetitive patterns, ostinati, to create ensemble sounds is an important composition tool. This program demonstrates how melodic and non-melodic ostinati can be added to a dong to create a composition.
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