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

to the track ‘Suite Bergamasque, Claire de
Listen
No. 3’ by Isao Tomita. As you listen, what
Lune,
Making electronic
ACTIVITY:
music
probably spend more time with machines
“I
with human beings, and it takes time to
than
André Jarre (b. 1948) is a pioneer in the
Jean-Michel
ambient and electronic music world. His
electronic,
step up to a grandiose level to include
performances
fireworks and, yes, synthesisers. His 1976 album
lasers,
Listen to ‘Oxygène, Pt. 2’ on the playlist and
elements.
us start examining it, alongside the transcribed
let
The opening 6/8 and note on ‘g’
ostinato pedal
1
2 Transfer your performance to one of the synthesisers
between the demography, the ecology and
balance
relationship with technology’. Listen to him speak
our
8 Do machines make music? 209
Listening strategically: Get an IDEA
or patterns can you ? ?
identify Describe
sounds
Analyse ? ?
Explain
1974 album is an electronic reinterpretation
The
Claude Debussy’s tone poems, performed
of
entirely on a Moog modular synthesiser. How
would you describe the
in
tone-colour changes
this excerpt?
Figure 8.6 ‘Oxygène Part 2’ top ostinato, pedal note and
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bass line
establishes the initial structure of the piece. However,
there are many sounds surrounding these musical
building blocks.
Using your portfolio and listening skills, copy
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a
ATL
Figure 8.6 and draw symbols and lines above it to
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thinking skills: Practising visible thinking
Creative
and techniques
strategies
represent the electronic elements heard on the
playlist.
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skills: Selecting and using technology
Organisation
and productively
effectively
On a device or real instrument, perform the
b
3-measure ostinato and bass line.
mentioned at the beginning of this chapter. Can
you experiment and find sounds similar to Jarre’s
tame them”
recording by altering the parameters in those
Jean-Michel Jarre
programs?
The future, according to Jarre ‘… could be quite
dystopian, or we can succeed to
create
a kind of
is a combination of musical ideas that we have
Oxygène
in previous chapters; the difference is the electronic
seen
about his project
at his website:
Equinox Infinity
https://jeanmicheljarre.com/music/equinoxe-infinity
example of Figure 8.6.
◆■ Assessment opportunities
this activity you have practised skills that
In
assessed using Criterion A: Knowing and
are
understanding and Criterion B: Developing skills.