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

around us are images or words. It is our daily job to
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their meaning, involving our imaginations to
decipher
the story (or information) being expressed.
understand
the website of cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher
Visit
poet Michael Leunig at www.leunig.com.au/works/
and
as we start to
recent-cartoons/960-storm-in-a-tea-cup
Paul Stanhope has written a beautiful
Composer
that includes themes from Peter and the
work
and is also based on poems by Michael
Wolf
Listen to all three movements within
Leunig.
uses pitch and rhythm to narrate his
Stanhope
of ‘The Missile’ and other Leunig
interpretation
at ).
www.leunig.com.au/works/poems
poems
can also purchase the score to perform
You
an ensemble with a choir. Use the Songs of
as
and Joy sample score to identify
Innocence
of each movement:
fingerprints
www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/
songs-of-innocence-and-joy-for-ssa-treble-choirchamber-orchestra-piano-reduction
image? the
What do you think is the interpretation of the
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Figure 2.32 ‘Storm in a
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cup’ by Michael Leunig
tea
What does the expression ‘a storm in a tea cup’ refer to?
1
What do you is the intent or narrative of
think
2
THINK–PUZZLE–EXPLORE
poem here?
puzzles
you about the twist that has been placed
What
on the language expression ‘a storm in a tea cup’? How
could you
explore
this idea further? Or how would you
explore the shape of images and words.
express this musically?
Listening strategically: Get an IDEA
Listening strategically: Get an IDEA
Based on the novella by French writer and aviator Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry,
was first published in
Little Prince
The
and then made into an animated film in 2005 with
1943,
music by Hans Zimmer, Richard Harvey and artist Camille.
Listen to the track on the playlist entitled ‘Equation’ and
the playlist, make a series of
analysis
sketches
in your portfolio and
identify
how composer
use the prompts below to analyse it. You are looking to
identify all the layers that Zimmer and Camille combine to
and .
time life as a child
communicate
1 Piano and ‘ticking’ introduction rhythms: Does the
rhythmic or pitch material have a distinct pattern?
2 Use of rests or phrases: Does the rhythmic or pitch
material use different or repeated patterns?
3 Repetition of other patterns: What else is added and
layered in this track?
Remember to use the acronym IDEA when answering these
questions.
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