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

thinking skills: Applying existing knowledge
Creative
generate new ideas, products or processes
to
was a time not all that long ago when a civil
“There
of sorts was being waged between classical
war
and those willing to consider a role
traditionalists
electronics and synthesizers within classical
for
Yet such a separation doesn’t appear to exist
music.
[Gregson] at all.”
for
this activity you have practised skills that are
In
using Criterion B: Developing skills and
assessed
ACTIVITY: Gregson Quartets No. 2
Gregson also provides a performance direction for the
ATL
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synthesiser so it can be set to the correct tone-colour or
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timbre. Here the free synthesiser Helm has been used
to recreate the arpeggio effect, with both a square and
sawtooth wave using the ADSR settings of A3.D3.S10.R4.
If you were to compose a piece of music today for an
If you have a device, Synth One does a fantastic job, as
well as Alchemy inside of GarageBand.
ensemble, would you include electronics? How would you
add instructions to your score for the performer? Peter
After performing the chords and finding a synth setting
Gregson, in his second EP, combines the colours of the
that you think works, discuss with a friend how you
string quartet with that of a synthesiser playing arpeggios:
might perform another layer on top, utilising longer
notes like the violins.
Discuss how you would notate this and what your
performance directions to another musician would
be. This is where you create your own system of
documenting synthesiser settings plus the actual notes
to be performed. Share them with your class for peer
Quartets: Two
Listen to
EP by Peter Gregson on the
playlist. Gregson’s piece ‘Sequence (Four)’ is reminiscent
evaluation; or, better yet, perform it live!
progression
of many works, with a Philip Glass-ian
of i
(D minor)-VI (B major)-III (F major)-VII (C sus4). Play this
using
progression yourself
the chart below.
◆■ Assessment opportunities
Figure 9.27 Minor chord formula progression with
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Criterion D: Responding.
suspension (sus4)
Figure 9.28 Helm synth with arpeggiator (ARP) turned on ready to perform
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