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

skills: Interpreting and using
Communication
modes of non-verbal communication
effectively
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the
Money
Moon
was brought to Sting Mercury Falling
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senses my
THINK–PUZZLE–EXPLORE
to the track ‘Lateralus’ by TOOL and discuss the following questions
Listen
What do you about the Fibonacci number sequence now?
think
1
What unanswered questions / do you still have?
puzzles
2
3 How can you this topic further in music?
1 Begin with lower level movements (kneeling on the
2 Next, move to middle level (standing but fixed) using
3 Finally, move to upper level (arms above head
this activity you have practised skills that are
In
using Criterion B: Developing skills,
assessed
C: Thinking creatively and Criterion D:
Criterion
Responding.
1 Is music more than a formula? 13
floor) showing percussion sequences with the floor.
ACTIVITY: Movement in time
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ATL
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Using the following pieces from the playlist, you are
going to move your body in time to the correct time
signatures
rhythm groupings. The emphasis will be
and
on showing the rhythmic layers of each work through
physical movement, for example if you play Dave
Brubeck’s ‘Take Five’, you want to move, dance or clap in
time to 5/4, but accentuate the grouping of 3+2. Then, if
Figure 1.21 Teachers dancing to ‘CoCo’s Lunch’
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you play ‘5/4’ by Gorillaz, you will want to emphasise the
grouping of 2+3 with the guitar part.
patsching, stamping and clapping.
Track Artist Album
Five CoCo’s Lunch Invisible Rhythm
and shoulders), showing shapes that outline the
music’s patterns.
5/4 Clogs Lantern
5/4 Gorillaz Gorillaz
As a class, comment on the way each band / artist used
rhythmic groupings and how they layered them within
the works. You are engaging in the musical concepts of
7/4 Dave Brubeck Unsquare Dance
duration
and . texture
◆ Assessment opportunities
create
The aim is to
a series of body shapes and
movements to the music. Remain fixed to the floor and
ensure you have space around you. Listen carefully to
discern the rhythmical groupings and time signatures.
will combinations of 2s and 3s.
use
They
in groups:
explore
can find more Fibonacci connections to the band TOOL with a web search and by
You
notating sections of the work ‘Lateralus’.
graphically