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Students are asked to create a composition with sounds that they find and record around their school. Students develop sensitivity to and understanding of music through observation, composition, and performance. They pay careful attention to various organic sound resources and use music to represent the character of particular spaces. Students practice using their perception, find the relevance to the musicality of what they discover in their environment, and apply this to their creation. Students also explore and reflect on their composition in multiple ways to create and develop musical ideas. 

•  Observe the environment and use and/or reproduce found sounds for composition.

•  Expand the range of musicality.

• Analyse composition and musical factors.

This unit has a creativity focus:

• Make connections between the environment and musical concepts

• Play with unusual ideas and sounds in composing musical pieces

• Compose, perform, and reflect on music with expressive qualities

Resources

• If desired, the teacher could show students videos of pieces composed from found sounds for inspiration or comparison. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPU3NefyktQ 

Other resources

• Audio/video: students listen to music to compare with music pieces (to be chosen by the teacher as appropriate)

• Sound recorder: record any sounds when students go around the school

• Video recorder: record students’ performance

• Any instruments necessary for students to compose

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bLW-4TMr5cmYd9UXgALXtDH7WNdEOkzqixp-mNrEEvg/edit?usp=sharing 

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qIZEQ7Ugap0JSYW7ZxJ9YGquigy6j1NBS3xiWdF1ONU/edit?usp=sharing 

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LGevTnAuXtIBPe2ovXaGYgJOSDC4qfAiQw2oXqLkGig/edit?usp=sharing

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rZPCjzwZsI4KQiA1sjMMitpnfQFHdOAkA4gDCTXEEkc/edit?usp=drive_link