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

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Find out how gameplay can focus our creativity and imagination into works of art or music.
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Explore the process behind the artists and musicians of games when they create new worlds of sound, to
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! Demonstrate the type of gameplay that can bring people together to work towards a common goal. Host and
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! Host a competition for visual artists, writers and musicians. Ask groups to create a mock pitch for a game that raises
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artwork of both games is unique in its use of shadow,
The
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communicate with an audience.
present an event that showcases collaboration through play and imagination.
of a local issue of social inequality. Make sure that your pitch looks at the application of key skills such as
awareness
collaboration and creativity. You could invite outside parties or the parents’ association to help judge
communication,
the applicants.
Listen to LUNA’s ‘Intro’ theme on the playlist and then
Game score mission
perform the theme below.
Child of Light
LUNA – The Shadow Dust
1 What colour comes to you when you hear this theme?
Which instruments do you think could play it and build
light and colour.
set in a world
LUNA – The Shadow Dust is
onto that colour?
of magic. It is completely hand drawn and relies on a
wonderful score by composer Wang Qian. You can watch
2 Using software or the performers you have around you,
perform LUNA’s ‘Intro’ theme and orchestrate it to reflect
the gameplay here:
Child
https://youtu.be/Pj-N42ZPf6I .
of Light, on the other hand, is first set in Austria in 1895,
the colour you chose. Use techniques that you have heard
then in a magical kingdom named Lemuria, with music by
in all the other works of this chapter so far (arpeggios,
motivic development, pedal notes, and so on).
Cœur de pirate. The opening
movie-cut scene)
cinematic (a
is beautifully narrated through a coloured church window:
3 Now listen to Aurora’s theme from ‘Child of Light’ on
https://youtu.be/r09MbuCE5h4
the playlist. Which colours come to you when you hear
this theme?
Figure 7.52 Opening theme from
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Wang Qian
LUNA – The Shadow Dust by
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Figure 7.53 Figure 7.54
of Light
Luna – The Shadow Dust
in-game image Press image of
Child
gameplay
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