Writing a Composition for Musicians to Understand!

In this task you will use the NoteFlight App to create a melody which is 8 bars in length.
You should use C major. Your first note could be C, and your last chord should be C major.
Use crotchets and quavers and minims and semibreves in 2/4, 3/4, or 4/4 time.
Use Patterns in your melody and make the first four bars balance with the last four bars (Call: Response).
Create a Bass Line and Harmony using Chords 1, 4, and 5 (C Major, F Major and G Major).

Create Patterns using Neighbour tones and Passing Tones
You will ask your classmates to perform your composition so don’t make it too tricky.

Log into Music First - and then Open NoteFlight

Add the following to your composition

Copy your melody into parts for some melodic instruments that your classmates can play. Eg. Piano or Xylophone or Boomwackers.
one accelerando and one ritardando.
Vary the dynamics, both overall and for each instrument.
Introducing a pause.
Tempo markings.
Articulation marks such as staccato or tenuto.
Accents.

Optional Extension

Can you add Harmony parts to accompany your melody? Only use the chords C, G, Am or F.

Show your composition to the Teacher. Check:

Your composition has a good shape with a beginning and an ending.
That each instrument has time and space to play in the way the markings ask (e.g. a diminuendo should take place over several chords so the instruments have a chance to get softer bit by bit).
Print your score and give the parts to 4 other students in your class.

Rehearsal

Find four people to form a group. Check that they are clear about what your markings mean and how they will play them(make sure it isn’t too complicated to play). Make a recording of your friends performing your composition with an Ipad or Phone.

Performance: Maestro Time!

You should conduct your classmates to ensure your composition is effective as a performance.

Upload the score and your composition to Schoology

Here is an example of the notes on the Treble and Bass Clef

Consider the following demo.

Which things have been done and which things have not yet been done?

Crotchets and Quavers
Copy into another part
8 Bars
Articulation: Staccato, Tenuto, Accents
Tempo
Accelerando, Ritardando, Pause
Dynamics: Varied overall and for different instruments.
Harmony parts: Am, C, G, F
Instrumentation which classmates can play

Lesson 1 Demo. Creating an 8 Bar Melody. Adding a Bass Line and adding Chords.

** We started with Chords. Then added passing tones in bar 1. Then created a pattern by pressing the "R" button to repeat. Then while the bar was orange, we moved the whole pattern using the 'up' and 'down' arrows on the keyboard.

Grade 6A Finding Lucky Money.pdf

Grade 6B Kim Chi.pdf

Photos from the board

C Major Scale and Chords (1,4,5) on a stave with a Treble Clef
Chord 1 CEG.

Chord 4 FAC

Chord 5 GBD

Bass Notes on a stave with a Bass Clef

C Major Chord on Treble Clef with a C in the Bass

Rhythms: You only need Minims, Crotchets, and Quavers for this task,but I have included semiquavers too.

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