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Tag Archives: graphic score
2017/7 Beethoven’s Fifth for Ocarinas
Last term I achieved a long-held ambition. When I stumbled across an arrangement of the themes from the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony for ocarinas I simply burst into laughter. Then I decided that it was something that HAD … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Lessons that have happened, Ocarina
Tagged Beethoven, ensemble, graphic score
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5/100 Easy Peasy Composition (and evaluation)
I’m teaching composition to primary classes from Reception to Year 6 (and even a one-off inset session for Primary School Teachers) this term. Here’s how I’m going about it. First, I’ve explored dynamics (loud and soft, and changing between them) with the class. … Continue reading
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Tagged composition, dynamics, graphic score, notation, structure, texture, timbre
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New Year Issue 117: Monkey Business
Lying in bed before the alarm went off this morning, I came up with this little body/vocal percussion number Monkey Business 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + Big Ba- boon (stamp) (click) Chimp- -an zee (click) (click) tan … Continue reading
Posted in Composition, Djembe, Percussion, Samba
Tagged cyclic patterns, graphic score, notation, ostinato, rhythm
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Christmas Issue 116: 30th December 2013 – Stripsody
I’ve written about this composition by Cathy Berberian here: http://www.themusicjungle.co.uk/live/2012/01/27/issue-23-words-and-music/ If you search on youtube you can find a number of different versions, with and without the score. I’m planning to use this with a year 5 and 6 class who … Continue reading
Issue 38: Swirled World Graphic Score
Here is the link to the National Institute for Environmental Health (of America) where I got this idea; http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/explore/nworld/earth2_swirled_world.htm It looked as though this might be a bit messy, but hey, I had fifteen minutes before it was time to … Continue reading
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Tagged colour, composition, graphic score, science
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Issue 35: Sounds, Syllables and Spellings
This term, I am using the topic of “around the world” as a starting point for my keystage 1 class music lessons. I came up with the bright idea of using the number of syllables in the name of a … Continue reading
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Tagged composition, graphic score, keystage1
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