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

EXPLOSION
OPTIONS
will start with one of the Russian Five, Nikolai
We
on the tale ‘One Thousand and One Nights’, this
Based
includes several stories. By creating individual
work
for each character, Korsakov brings them
melodies
for each tale, such as the evil Sultan, the Princess
back
the Ocean and Sinbad with his ship (you
Scheherazade,
listen to the work on the playlist). For each of these
can
■
themes (provided in Figure 2.33 below), answer the
four
questions in your portfolio:
following
2 Does music have a story to tell? 47
How does music represent people, places or things?
MUSICAL INGREDIENTS OF STORYTELLING (PART 1)
THE
in storytelling, and developing ideas that remain as pitch material be identified within works that are so
Pitch
interesting as when they are first played, is very important.
different? The best way is to start collecting ‘fingerprint’
From Western music to Arabic folksong and deep house,
materials of melodies, harmonies and bass lines in your
hook or melody needs to keep the listener engaged. portfolio. You can look for repeated intervals or groups
a
the
do this, musicians manipulate something called the of notes, the connection of smaller steps to larger leaps,
b
To
pitch material.
patterns that connect more than one note in an ascending
c or descending order and then
the repeating of smaller
d Pitch material includes everything from the actual notes
fragments of the main melody.
played to their variation in each repetition. But how can
your first observations of each melody,
Describe
1
and his work .
Scheherazade Op. 35
Rimksy-Korsakov,
(any low or high notes used, steps or leaps, repeated
patterns or no repeated patterns).
2 Brainstorm new or hidden options you may not have
considered (the intervals used, the shape of each
measure, smaller repeated sections or arpeggios).
what you have discovered in your analysis of
List 3
these melodies.
This approach is a great way to
identify
the pitch
a
material in any work.
b
c
d
Figure 2.33 a b c d
themes: the Sultan, Scheherazade, the Ocean and Sinbad
Scheherazade