The Elements of Music
Lesson Aims - To learn about different forms of musical structure. - To develop your musical understanding of the elements of music.
Homework
Answer the following questions for homework. You must write at least one side of A4 paper..
Why did choose Music GCSE? What are you most looking forward too/least What would you looking forward to like to develop as in this GCSE? a Musician?? What are your (e.g.performing/ strengths as a composing/theory musician?? etc) (e.g. performing/ composing/theory etc) The Elements of Music
What are they????????????? Elements of Music
Get into your composition groups from Wednesdays lesson. Each group will be given an element. You have three minutes to brainstorm as many musical words that are linked with this specific element. Be prepared to share your findings with the rest of the class.
PITCH DYNAMICS
TEMPO DURATION TEXTURE TIMBRE Think-Pair-Share What other musical words do you know that are associated with each element??(List these in the back of your books).
• Pitch • High/ Low • Soprano, alto, tenor, bass
• Tempo • Fast/slow • Allegro/ andante/ adagio • Loud /Quiet • Forte/ piano / • Dynamics crescendo/diminuendo • Long/short • Minims/ quavers • Duration (notes)
• Texture • Thick/thin • polyphonic/ homophonic / unison
• Timbre • Sound created • Brass/strings/woodwind/ percussion
Musical Vocab: Definitions
• Soprano (female high pitch) • Alto (female low pitch) • Tenor (male high pitch) • Bass (male low pitch) • Allegro (Fast) • Andante (moderate speed) • Adagio (slow) • Forte (loud) • Piano (quiet) • Crescendo (getting louder) • Diminuendo (getting quieter) • Minims (2 beat notes) • Crotchets (1 beat notes) • quavers (half beat notes) • Polyphonic (thick) homophonic (thin) unison (same notes/same rhythm)
• Brass/strings/woodwind/ percussion
Introduction to GCSE Music
Music GCSE at St Gabriel’s
By the end of Y10 you will have.. By the end of Y11 you will have..
- Completed your solo performance - Completed your ensemble performance (April) - Completed your composition 2 on - Completed your composition 1 on ICT/ your instrument your instrument (April) - Completed your log and evaluation. - Complete your Performance - Completed your Creative Task Commentary (April). - Completed your Listening Test.
YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR RESULTS FOR YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR RESULTS FOR THESE MODULES IN RESULTS DAY 2013 THESE MODULES IN RESULTS DAY 2014 Activate: Tools of Composition
Over the next four weeks you will be developing your COMPOSING skills.
You will be learning TOOLS OF COMPOSITION that will hopefully make the composition process easier for you once you start your coursework after half term.
Last weeks composition tool: •Appropriate elements of music
This weeks composition tool: •Musical
Structure. New ‘tool’. What does this mean? STRUCTURE IS A VITAL PART OF ALL MUSIC COMPOSITION. Why do we need structure What is un music? musical structure? What is structure?? Activate: How can I structure my composition?
A B FORM A B A FORM (binary form) (ternary form)
Three different Two different sections: sections: A and B and A A and B repeated again. Activate: How can I structure my composition? Rondo FORM
Multiple sections: A B A C A Activate: How can I structure my composition? STROPHIC FORM Verse/ Chorus e.g intro, verse 1, chorus, verse2, chorus, Bridge, chorus, outro
Theme and Variation: All based around one main melody which is varied throughout Activate: What structure can you hear? Binary? (AB) Turnary? (ABA) Rondo? (ABAC) Strophic Form? (Verse/ Chorus) Theme and Variations?
1) 2) 3) Activate: What structure can you hear?
Horror Film Scene ‘Zombie Attacks’ Scene 1 Scene 2
It was a cold winters night Gradually, the student could hear foot steps behind him. and a school student was He gets scared and walks walking home through the faster, but the steps behind woods. him become faster and faster too. The boy start to run, now terrified. He can hear the stranger behind him picking up pace. You Must, should, could
use pitch, add rhythmic structure Timbre contrast. each and tempo scene to create add textural using contrast. contrast. turnary form . Structure using Binary Form