Music With A StoryMusic With A Story

Music With A StoryMusic With A Story

Communication is a fundamental component of life. Composers have this understanding at the

the heart of their musical creations

Music With A StoryMusic With A Story

Statement of Inquirey: Music is used to communicate

stories, ideas, moods and feelings

Programme MusicProgramme Music

What is programme music?

Listen to these examples. What are they about? Write a short story to fit the music and/or draw a picture to represent the music

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Lesson 1

Creating a SceneCreating a Scene How does a composer create a musical scene?

What techniques could we use to fit these pictures? How could we represent these ideas in a score?

Lesson 2

Composition TaskComposition TaskUse this picture to create your own short

piece of programme music with instruments

Team up with someone

who plays a different

type of instrument

i.e. high and low

Lesson 2-3

Programme Music CritiqueProgramme Music Critique

Choose a programme music work and give a critique of the work (according to Feldman’s art critique method) Ai, Aii, Di, Dii, Diii

Choose your format of presentation (written, presentation, video, oral)

Managebac assessment task

Summative Assessment Task

Feldman’s Art CritiqueFeldman’s Art Critique

Description

Analysis

Interpretation

Judgment

Pictures at an ExhibitionPictures at an Exhibition Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881)

Russian composer Composed for a collection of paintings

Listen to 3 excerpts and identify which painting fits each section of music. Why?

Lesson 5

Your exhibitionYour exhibition

Composition task (groups)Choose 2 stimuli of your own or from the

following pictures and compose a piece of programme music for each stimuli

You should also compose a ‘promenade’ that will be played as an introduction and between the 2 pictures

Lesson

Your exhibitionYour exhibition

Remember: Find interesting ways of representing your picture Use a variety of different instruments Record your progress in your process journal and

with recording devises It is a group composition

Lesson

Your exhibitionYour exhibitionLesson

Sample Pictures

Your exhibitionYour exhibitionLesson 4-8

Choose 2 pictures!