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[MUSIC PLAYING] JULIA BRENNAN: In part 5, we're focusing on the shapes and their relationship to music. So its shapes in music. We're using the music of Webern, and his Six Bagatelles, and linking it primarily to the artworks of Kandinsky. You can also add an Australian flavor with the works of John Coburn.

And what we're doing is identifying various techniques that are used in the music. So you'll notice there's a lot of string techniques, such as mute, where there's no sound, or we put a mute on the string to dampen the sound. Pizzicato, where the students are plucking the strings, or the musicians, sorry, are plucking the strings. And there's various other string techniques that are written down there for you to listen out for.

Then what the students are doing is, after they've identified one of the bagatelles that they really enjoyed, they're going to create their own artwork to depict that bagatelle.

Now, these bagatelles a quite confrontational. They're very abstract. They're a little bit different. So you don't need to listen to the entirety. You might just take some chunks of it. And then listen to it again. Focus on the different shapes that could be used to depict the sounds that the students are hearing.

So from the music will be an artwork created. So it's matching sound to symbol through shape.

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