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

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Transfer skills: Applying skills and knowledge in
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situations
unfamiliar
Figure 5.20 ‘Equinox’ introduction drum rhythm transcribed using
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Symphony
ACTIVITY: Match them up!
Game 1: Choosing a rhythm
ATL
Samba involves many percussion instruments, and the
grooves in Figure 5.17 come from traditionally performed
parts. You can play them one at a time or as an
ensemble, but choose one for this activity.
Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994), was a Brazilian
Game 2: Locking in a bass line
composer, pianist and songwriter who composed many
(some musicians call
lock into
of the now standard works known as ‘The Girl from
The role of the bass is to
it
Ipanema’ and ‘Desafinado’. After you have listened to
the drums. The secret is to
sitting in the pocket of) line up
these tracks on the playlists and performed the rhythm
make sure that your bass notes
with beats in the
drum / percussion pattern. Using a keyboard instrument
patterns below, we will add bass lines and harmonies to
those rhythms. There is no need to think it won’t work,
or a bass guitar, test the example in Figure 5.18. Limiting
the bass to C (tonic) and G (dominant) we lock the notes
because you simply match them up like a puzzle.
to the surdo rhythm. You can also program this into
software like GarageBand.
choices, and building on them, is most of the work
Making
improvising.
when
Figure 5.17 Agogo, tamborim (with muted + and open ˚ playing instructions) and surdo patterns
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Listening strategically: Get an IDEA
track for the entire chapter is the smaller parts (intervals, , ) to their outward
Analyse
motifs sequences
The
Coltrane’s ‘Equinox’. Released larger parts of form, modulations, phrases and . cadences
John
in 1964 by Atlantic Records, it is
structured around a minor 12-bar
blues with some Latin rhythms.
As you listen to it, document the
following in your portfolio:
Identify the sounds, or patterns,
you hear.
Describe how they are being
played, presented, layered.
Explain what role they play in the
structure of the work.
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