Recorder

Focus: Composition / Notation

Notes: Any notes learned this year

Learning Goal: The purpose of this task is to add pitches to your rhythmic composition created in Task 17, and then transfer your pitched-rhythms onto the staff you set up in Task 13. Finally, add the finishing touches (dynamics, articulations, tempo) to your composition. 

Minds on! 

• What are the common things you see when looking at printed music? 

• What do you notice about the stem directions, the bar lines, the beginning and the end of the song, etc.? 

• Have you included all of these elements in your composition?

Checklist:

•  Use a PENCIL.

• Go to Task 17 and decide on letter names underneath each note head.

  • • CAUTION: Remember to use notes that you can play and a pattern that sounds like a melody. Don’t just put in random letter names.

    • HINT: Starting and ending on the first note of the scale will frame the piece nicely. 

• Place the rhythm that you created in Task 17 onto the staves you prepared in Task 13, with the note heads on the proper lines or spaces (depending on the letters you chose).

• Make sure that you can play what you have written; it’s not about difficulty, it’s about accuracy. REMEMBER: You can change the notes if you don’t like how it sounds.

• Add the finishing touches:

  • • Tempo marking – how fast or slow would you like your composition to be played

    • Dynamic markings – how loud or soft would you like your composition to be played? You can change the dynamics throughout your composition as well! Take a look at some song examples in your book.

    • Articulations – will all note be articulated? Will some notes be slurred?

• Give your composition a creative title.