What can I remember? Prompts for Parents Spring 1 Music: Composing  Can you remember how to identify patterns of repetition? Can you record some found  Can you remember the difference between pulse and sounds at home – what different patterns? sounds can you make? Fascinating facts 4

Fascinating facts 1 Found sounds are from the world around us. They can be Can you work together to create a band that uses found Delia Derbyshire swapped traditional musical instruments anything - a ball hitting the floor, a pedestrian crossing or a lift door opening and closing. sounds? for electronic sounds when she arranged the theme for one of the most famous TV shows ever: .

Fascinating fact 5 Key Vocabulary

Fascinating facts 2 Fascinating facts 3 ’s composition, Found sound – Sounds found in the Etudes aux chemins de fer, is ‘natural’ world or made from non- Delia had to record Segun Akinola, who became the composer for constructed entirely from musical objects and then used to make hundreds of electrical Doctor Who in 2018, is a big fan of Derbyshire’s sounds found at a train station. music. beeps onto tape, adjust work and used aspects of her original arrangement

the pitch of each in his new version of the show’s theme. Graphic score – A visual (often diagrammatic) representation of music. individual note and then There are no rules for graphic scores, the splice them all together composer (i.e. you!) invents them. to create a bass line or a melody. Melody – Another word for ‘tune’. A musical sentence.

Orchestrate – Choose which instruments

perform which parts of the music.

Ostinato – A repeating (often rhythmic)

pattern. Important person

Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of . She carried out pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to Doctor Who.