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

skills: Sharing ideas with multiple
Communication
using a variety of digital environments
audiences
1 Create an electronic template in SoundTrap, or a
2 Using acoustic sounds or devices, improvise a melodic
3 Record it with at least one time-signature change.
4 Apply different methods of motivic development to
this activity you have practised skills that
In
assessed using Criterion A: Knowing and
are
and instrumental colours have evolved into the 21st
Century. See www.fabermusic.com/repertoire/polaris-5537
or watch the live performance at the BBC Proms here:
https://youtu.be/bClkmv-kRP0
“Underpinning his use of such spiral harmonies
is Adès’s belief that notes are pushed and pulled
around by magnetic forces.”
The main theme is a spiralling pattern that uses the A major
FORMS OF EXPRESSION
NEW
Adès is a composer whose works could be entered
Thomas
pentatonic scale of A-B-C#-E-F#. The theme presented in
which means it is layered
canonically ,
into a ‘21st Century school of expression’. Using his work
Figure 11.39 is treated
for orchestra and five video screens entitled ‘Polaris for
over other parts. Adès disguises these canons by using
Orchestra Op. 29’ (2010), we will look at how ostinatos
motivic development.
Figure 11.39 ‘Polaris’ spiralling piano motif in groupings of 12, 12, 123, 12, 12345...
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Figure 11.40 ‘Polaris’ theme in 16th notes (semi-quavers) and contrary motion, mm149–150
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ACTIVITY: Polaris and Sheltering Sky
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ATL
augment (stretch the rhythm), diminute (shrink the
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rhythm), or retrograde (turn it backwards).
5 Layer the different versions over each other in canon.
and media
In your portfolio, reflect on this process and how your
piece sounded.
score template for five instruments in MuseScore.
◆■ Assessment opportunities
theme using the A pentatonic scale with repeated notes.
understanding and Criterion C: Thinking creatively.
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