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

What is a
theme?
1 I am the Doctor
2 The Dark and Endless Dalek Night
6 Can we hear images? 171
Figure 6.46 Space and time
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BRINGS CREATIVITY
COLLABORATION
section of Chapter 6 will be devoted to thematic writing for the TV series needs a closer look. Make sure you
Dr Who
This
for piano. There are many musicians and composers who
have a instrument nearby, notation software, GarageBand or
could be mentioned, but the musical writing of Murray Gold
SoundTrap for recording ideas, as well as the listening playlist.
ACTIVITY: Dr Who and Murray Gold
bass notes to a i / VI / VII / iv progression, the theme is
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complete. Try playing the theme in steady 8th notes.
Creative thinking skills: Applying existing knowledge
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to generate new ideas, products or processes
What do you do to make a piano sound like mad-evil
robots? Add an ostinato in the bass in octaves, and
use a repeated motif on top. Then using the idea of
space, create a rising
melody in a sequence
This time-travelling hero needed a theme, and Gold
arpeggio
decided to use the time signature of 7/4 with the
of longer rhythms.
Try performing this theme in groups on instruments
Dorian mode (1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 8). By repeating a
scale-like motif called a
and changing the
tetrachord
and devices.
Figure 6.47
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theme with repeated 1-measure phrase over 4 chords
I am the Doctor
Figure 6.48 ‘Dalek’ ostinato and arpeggio theme
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