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

literacy skills: Evaluating and selecting
Information
sources and digital tools based on their
information
skills: Applying skills and knowledge in
Transfer
situations
unfamiliar
The opening features a phrase
question-and-answer
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2 Play the arpeggios as written to a steady pulse. Then
One of Vangelis’ techniques is to layer
orchestration
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4 Now, find synthesised sounds that you can perform
this activity you have practised skills that
In
assessed using Criterion A: Knowing and
are
This technique is something we will come to see in
many exemplary electronic works.
Activating musical
ACTIVITY:
lines
organise a group to sing / play the melody on top.
ATL
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the work as it progresses. This is why it is important
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to leave space, and not fill every rhythmic grouping or
layer straight away.
appropriateness to specific tasks
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as a class electronic orchestra. Use the Vangelis’ parts
and audio as your reference point.
Evangelos Papathanassiou (b. 1943), also known as
, is famous for his style of .
GarageBand’s Alchemy synth and SoundTrap’s instruments
Vangelis
symphonic electronica
performance
His album
(1976) is a concept album,
Albedo 0.39
will work very well as live
instruments.
inspired by the idea of a planet’s
which is the
albedo ;
proportion of the light it receives that is reflected back
into space. Listen to the track ‘Alpha’ on the playlist and
◆ Assessment opportunities
creating
get
with the instructions that follow:
that repeats. Beneath as a structure, an 8-measure
understanding and Criterion B: Developing skills.
chord progression
changes slowly using .
arpeggios
Figure 8.13 ‘Alpha’ deconstructed Part 1, with solfeggio
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Figure 8.14 ‘Alpha’ deconstructed Part 2. Look for the 3-octave ranged arpeggio!
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