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

206 is an extended musical composition by Claudio
SV
(1567–1643) for vocalists and chamber
Monteverdi
1 Sing, play or organise a group to record the
2 Using the recording you have, add layers of
3 Edit the settings of each synthesiser sound used,
Listening strategically: Get an IDEA
‘Giant’ by Calvin Harris and Rag’n’Bone Man is
a great electronic dance track to analyse with a
graphic structural diagram to identify its sections
and internal musical structures, then compare it to
The Kaleidoscope Orchestra’s remix (orchestration
by Steve Pycroft). Here you will be able to add more
details of melodic and rhythmic phrases as played by
ACTIVITY: Ambient vocals
instruments: .
https://youtu.be/som4EqKr2cE
orchestral
Remember to use the acronym
IDEA
■
ATL
when writing in
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your portfolio.
skills: Making connections between
Transfer
groups and disciplines
subject
della Beata Vergine Vespers for the Blessed Virgin
( )
Vespro
Using the opening chant from Monteverdi’s ‘Deus
in adiutorium’, you are to reinterpret it using music
were written for the
technology and voice just like Mazzoli. There are
orchestra. These
of 1610
Vespers
prayers in Catholic services, often sung in Latin.
evening
multiple options from recording and layering the
tracks in GarageBand or SoundTrap, but research
tutorials for vocoders and autotune-type effects
What is unique about this work is Monteverdi’s innovative
chant
as structurally unifying
online as well.
use of sacred Gregorian
themes, combined with solo voices and continuo (a form
of music called a
Listen to the opening ‘Deus in
motet ).
opening chant (Figure 8.60). It can be recorded
adiutorium’ on the playlist as a class.
in its entirety then looped, broken up into small
or performed as a . canon
phrases
We are going to compare Monteverdi with a modern work
for voice and electronics entitled ‘Vespers for a New Dark
percussion and synthesiser parts that you create.
Age’ (2014) by Missy Mazzoli. You can view a copy of
Use the Vangelis technique of repeating and slowly
the score here: https://issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/
vespers_for_a_new_dark_age_49360
building layers on top of the chant.
is the role of religion or spirituality in our
“What
time? Bringing all the ideas together into
modern
making diagram drawings of the ADSR envelopes
to document your creations in your portfolio.
performance… with technology… how do we
live
to that as humans?”
respond
Mazzoli’s vocal work ‘Overture’ from Song from the
Uproar (2012) is also a great piece for analysis.
Missy Mazzoli
Mazzoli’s ‘Vespers’ are an interpretation of the original prayer
◆■ Assessment opportunities
this activity you have practised skills that
In
assessed using Criterion A: Knowing and
are
service. The composition includes voice, percussion, strings
and electronics by producer Lorna Dune. Listen to ‘Wayward
Free Radical Dreams’ on the playlist or Soundcloud:
Criterion B: Developing skills and
understanding,
C: Thinking creatively.
Criterion
https://soundcloud.com/newamrecords/missy-mazzolivespers-for-a-new-dark-age-wayward-free-radical-dreams
Figure 8.60 ‘Deus in adiutorium’ introduction chant from Vespers of 1610
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