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

Who was Bernard
Herrmann?
Figure 10.5 Strings are an essential colour for
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They can communicate messages, emotions
composers.
artistic director) immense freedom because of the
and
variety of sounds these instruments can produce.
wide
What do you you know about writing for
think
1
listen to Hans Zimmer’s track ‘Zoosters Breakout’
Now
the 2005 film .
Madagascar
from
What questions or do you have?
puzzles
2
you identify how the repeated ostinato
Can
provides both the movement and harmony
pattern
movement
the playlist or YouTube with score at
on
Figure 10.6 The combination of groups of quarter and 8th notes (crotchet and quavers) shows how Ravel uses
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to highlight his melody line
rhythm
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THINK–PUZZLE–EXPLORE
film music for strings gives you (the composer
Writing
stringed instruments? (Make some initial notes in
your portfolio or conduct research.)
in this track? You should also notice that theme
three is played smoothly over the top of the
ostinato.
rhythmic
How can you this topic of string-writing
explore
3
further?
– symbols even – that audiences identify with.
STRING-WRITING AS STORYTELLING
Portfolio presentation
Listen to the second
‘Assez vif – très rythmé’
tips no. 2
Orchestration
composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) wrote his
The
https://youtu.be/ieRQyyPowH0. The second movement
‘String Quartet in F major’ in 1903. The quartet’s structure
(vigorous and playful) and opens with a
scherzo
is a
is modelled on that of Claude Debussy’s ‘String Quartet’,
passage outlining a melody in the Aeolian
pizzicato
then a second that is very lyrical and played .
mode,
written in 1893, but displays a sense of colour and melody
arco
that is all his own. Just note that all composers learn and
Notate these themes into your portfolio as we begin to
build on the ideas of those they study.
investigate more imaginative scoring ideas.