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

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Portfolio presentation
2 Using the MuseScore example below, improvise your
Train
Mugungwha
2017, composer Brendan Collins was commissioned
In
melody in C minor using .
sequences
own
3 You could have MuseScore play back the 5/4 rhythm
to create a work for a concert band as part of a school
festival in South Korea. Based on the Korean mugungwha
while you improvise a theme on your own instrument
train, the themes refer to scenes of both metropolitan
or device.
and rural areas as one would travel on the train. Collins
Use your portfolio as a means of documenting your
also integrated traditional Korean instruments such as the
sketches and how you approached working with an odd
kwengari
janggu
(small hand-held gong) and
time signature of 5.
(doubleheaded
drum). His choice of a 5/4 time signature
allowed a steady pulse of 8th notes (quavers) to support a
syncopated melody on top.
You can watch the violin version performed on Vimeo
◆■ Assessment opportunities
In this activity you have practised skills that are
here: https://youtu.be/X6PW3ovqVWY
assessed using Criterion B: Developing skills and
Criterion C: Thinking creatively.
1 Your role will be to explore the idea of writing a
melody over a rhythm in 5/4.
Figure 9.61 Mugungwha Train for violin and piano, with 4-phrase melody
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Figure 9.62 Mugungwha Train example MuseScore le
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