FAIRYTALE COMPOSITIONS

SESSION 3.

Samuel Wright @wrightstufmusic

EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES

EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES

This is by a grade 7 student.

• Besides scoring errors what do you notice that is happening musically in the score? In the parts? In the direction?

• What models or influences can you see as possible inspiration?

• Were you to present this to your students would it inspire them?

k12onlineconference.org/page/2/

COMPOSING WITH FAIRYTALES

http://bit.ly/1LPylt7

LESSON FOCUS

TRANSDISCIPLINARY THEME HOW WE ORGANISE OURSELVES

CENTRAL IDEA Organised sounds can depict people, places or ideas.

KEY CONCEPTS • Form • Perspective • Reflection

LESSON FOCUS

KEY CONCEPTS • Form “What is it like?”

• Perspective “What are the points of view?”

• Reflection “How do we know?”

THEME & VARIATIONS

UNIT PROGRESSION

FAIRYTALE COMPOSITIONS

PAINTING MUSIC

THEME & VARIATIONS

UNIT PROGRESSION

FAIRYTALE COMPOSITIONS

PAINTING MUSIC

• Beethoven • Mozart

THEME & VARIATIONS

UNIT PROGRESSION

FAIRYTALE COMPOSITIONS

PAINTING MUSIC

• Beethoven • Mozart

• Mussorgsky • Debussy • Schoenberg

THEME & VARIATIONS

UNIT PROGRESSION

FAIRYTALE COMPOSITIONS

PAINTING MUSIC

• Puccini • Video Examples

• Beethoven • Mozart

• Mussorgsky • Debussy • Schoenberg

FRAGMENTING MODELS

Beethoven Variations ‘Venni Amore’ (1790)

https://youtu.be/ZzM4s4_5WtQ

YEAR 12 USING MOVEMENT FOR ANALYSIS

Beethoven Variations ‘Venni Amore’ (1790)

https://youtu.be/ZzM4s4_5WtQ

Mussorgsky App ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ (SyncScore)

INTERVALS AND RHYTHMS

Grade 5 Video Reflections

REFLECTION AND EVALUATION

Grade 1 Music Lessons

BOOKCREATOR PORTFOLIOS

Carnival of the Animals. Using the iPad for Grade 1 PYP Music Lessons.

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ACTIVATING CREATIVITY

Writing Rhythms to a Poem from ‘Under Sky Bears Feet.’

Words & Complimentary

Patterns

Looking at iTunesU and evaluating Student Work

to create our own in Garageband.

Engaging with ‘The Empty Pot’ and

Puccini.

Singing & Fragments Game.

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ACTIVATING CREATIVITY

Writing Rhythms to a Poem from ‘Under Sky Bears Feet.’

Words & Complimentary

Patterns

Looking at iTunesU and evaluating Student Work

to create our own in Garageband.

Engaging with ‘The Empty Pot’ and

Puccini.

Singing & Fragments Game.

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ACTIVATING CREATIVITY

Writing Rhythms to a Poem from ‘Under Sky Bears Feet.’

Words & Complimentary

Patterns

Looking at iTunesU and evaluating Student Work

to create our own in Garageband.

Engaging with ‘The Empty Pot’ and

Puccini.

Singing & Fragments Game.

This video is edited from two performances of Puccini's Turandot: Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra (1989) San Francisco Opera Chorus and Orchestra (1994) https://youtu.be/-PkS2HQj9ZE

• Fragment

• Augment

• Accompany

ITUNESU TIME

ITUNES U is a brilliant place to house and deliver unit work.

Students can submit assignments and communicate with their teacher.

Private courses require an IOS device.

iTunesU Enroll Code: FAE-ZRK-PCK

TASK

Spend some time navigating the course and notice the following:

1. How Technology is Integrated 2. Composition Scaffolding 3. Recording and Reporting

GARAGEBAND TIME

We can choose our own or use the following slides…

1. Fairytale 2. Five Themes 3. Incorporate Rhythm 4. Add Texture 5. Evaluate

Photos of students with their teachers completing the task of composing from this presentation. #ISB-AMIS-Conference

Photos of students with their teachers collaboratively completing the task of composing from this presentation. #ISB-AMIS-Conference

THANK YOU.