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

Ricercata
Musica
piano composed from 1951 to 1953. We will listen to
for
VII Cantabile, molto legato’ as it is centred around a
‘No.
grouping of 7 notes, played over and over until
rhythmic
it with a smooth, melodic line on top. There is a
overlay
twist; Ligeti introduces a modal-sounding melody
slight
ostinato pattern into music software in 7/8 or
left-hand
4/4:
As you listen to Ligeti’s ‘No. VII’, each melodic
draw
1
pieces between 1926 and 1939. The beauty
piano
this collection is that they are a complete music
of
2 You will hear that intervals are soon added. Use a
3 Using the lines you have drawn, create your own
have just used line-drawings to improvise your own
You
parts!
melodic
or split it between two people. The Aeolian
hands,
scale formula is 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 8.
modes’
ACTIVITY: Ligeti ostinatos
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ATL
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skills: Using appropriate strategies for
Organisation
complex information
organising
Figure 5.7 Ligeti line-drawing
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György Ligeti’s
is a set of eleven pieces
different colour to draw the shape of any new lines.
What patterns do you notice?
they blur into one moving shape. The idea of this work
shapes to notate over the left-hand ostinato. As it
in the bass and
is simple: have a repeating
repeats, experiment with intervals, long notes and
ostinato
short notes around ‘C.’
using the
Your task will be to notate the
Dorian mode. ◆■ Assessment opportunities
this activity you have practised skills that
In
assessed using Criterion A: Knowing and
are
phrase into your portfolio using squiggles and
shapes. Try to keep the note ‘C’ in the centre, like
Figure 5.7.
understanding and Criterion B: Developing skills.
Figure 5.8 Ligeti line-drawing; measures 1–4 are the original, with measures 5–8 an example composition
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ascending or descending patterns, syncopations
EXTENSION
and
now you can. The aim of learning from
canons, Book 1
Mikrokosmos
Performance:
Bartók (1881–1945) wrote a series of individual
Béla
these books, on any instrument, is that you build
a
vocabulary
for improvising. Start this week with
Book 1
It is a short work in
No. 11 Parallel Motion .
the
Aeolian mode
where you learn to play with two
vocabulary in themselves. If you ever wanted
to know how to play scales,
folk-music,
modes, Music for the IB MYP 4&5: by Concept
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