Music - MYP 4 and 5 - Samuel Wright - Hodder 2020

What are intervals and
how are they used?
3 What does it make you about line,
https://youtu.be/ptxoJ9KS7Ow
scored performance of this work. Take screenshots and
a
5 Is improvising a form of creativity in action? 123
PATTERNS OF SOUND
THE
develop musical lines’ could be the answer to the question
‘To
above! Intervals are only two notes with either a small or
larger gap between them. Yet it is their sound quality, major
or minor, that gives us a sense of the direction the music will
be taking us. If intervals are combined into a longer line of
notes called a
we have the basis for an ear-worm or
melody ,
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catchy hook. Musicians spend a lot of time experimenting
playing through intervals, and in order
scales arpeggios
and
to be able to play the sounds that they hear in their heads.
There is a musician who made playing the interval of an
SEE–THINK–WONDER
some time to write Figure 5.5 into your portfolio.
Take
octave, combined with a melody, his signature feature.
Then with a friend, discuss your answers to the
Wes Montgomery’s (1923–1968) track ‘Four on Six’, has
following prompts:
What do you that shows a line or pattern?
see
1
What do you of the other layers in the track?
think
2
an incredible bass line that glues the work together by
using intervals to outline the chord patterns. Within each
measure, the bass ascends an octave (8 notes) by using pairs
wonder
rhythm
of perfect 5ths. Below you will see the 8 measures labelled
and space in jazz?
with their intervals, showing that everything is connected.
Figure 5.5 Bass or guitar line from ‘Four on Six’ in pairs of perfect 5ths
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2 Rhythmic patterns that push the work forwards.
With a partner, watch
for
Portfolio presentation
Prokofiev patterns
Using our inquiry lens of
which deals with the
aesthetic ,
label them in your portfolio with descriptions of what
characteristics of what we can identify and understand in
you can see and hear. This is how you create your own
art, our goal will be to explore Sergei Prokoev’s (1891–1953)
improvisation vocabulary.
‘Piano Prelude, Op. 12, No. 7’ for the following features:
What other patterns can you identify in the right (treble
1 A melodic line that descends in intervals of thirds
clef) or left (bass clef) in this example?
Figure 5.6 Prokoev’s ‘Harp Prelude’ mm31–36 with octaves in the bass and Phrygian mode
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