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

to experiment, use notation software like
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to copy and paste them on top of each
MuseScore
into a piano part. Take screenshots of your
other
and then listen to Ravel’s ‘Menuet sur le
experiments
d’Haydn’ on the playlist. What are some other
nom
you could imitate Ravel’s coding experiment?
ways
in an earlier part of this chapter. He
Whitacre
also written a wonderful setting of Hebrew
has
songs for choir, piano and violin called Five
love
Love Songs. In the fourth movement
Hebrew
performer permission to interpret the notes
the
their own rhythmic time; literally reading it as
in
you play flute, viola or other concert-pitched
If
Gustav Holst (1874–1934) wrote a
instruments,
similar passage with traditional notation for
very
‘Lyric Movement’ composed in 1933. Again, it
his
the performer choice over how to express
gives
opening melody. Listen to both works on the
the
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) was given the challenge
of composing a piece that was based on a cryptogram of
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Joseph Haydn’s name. Ravel’s version is particularly beautiful
as it uses the French-grid on page 26 to turn HAYDN into B
performance
Ensemble
looked at ‘Deep Field’ by composer Eric
We
(using the German system for the first note)-A-D-D-G. Ravel
presents the HAYDN theme forwards, backwards and even
upside-down.
there is a part where voices
imitate
bells using a
‘musical direction’,
This term gives
senza misura .
‘without meter or time’.
Figure 1.55 ‘Haydn’ encoded by Ravel
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ACTIVITY: Ravel and Haydn
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ATL
playlist and investigate performing them.
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thinking skills: Focusing on the process
Creative
creating by imitating the work of others
of
Using the musical code that you made of your name
in the previous activity, try to
present
your encoded
name backwards and upside-down, like Ravel.
Figure 1.56 Example of ‘Éyze Sheleg!’ (‘What Snow!’)
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with the direction of
senza misura
Time in seconds is
◆■ Assessment opportunities
also given to interpret the notes within the work.
this activity you have practised skills that are
In
using Criterion C: Thinking creatively and
assessed
Criterion D: Responding.
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