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: Doctor Who. Fascinating fact 5 Key Vocabulary Fascinating facts 2 Fascinating facts 3 Pierre Schaeffer’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) Important person pattern. Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to Doctor Who. .