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

Syncopation is when accents are placed off of the main
your own theme by improvising a series of
Write
for either a heroic or villainous character. Sit in
sketches
Figure 2.37 King Kastchei’s ‘infernal dance’ theme
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Figure 2.38 Rey’s theme shown in phrases 1, 2 and 3
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Figure 2.39 Siegfried’s main theme
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But what about heroes? If we look into the film music of
You will need to research the rest of the story and
Stravinsky’s ballet as we are looking directly at the theme
composer John Williams and the theme music for Rey from
Wars, we get a repetitive pattern that is turned into
Star
(chords), and then with a similar rhythm made into a
triads
for this evil magician, ‘The Infernal Dance of King Kastchei’:
https://youtu.be/6wbkKWrUD-A
melody (similar to Figure 2.9 by Ravel).
After listening to the performance in Figure 2.37, we can
Heroic themes often include triplets with repeated patterns
the rhythmic effect of this , syncopated 3-part
investigate
uneven theme.
(like The Star Wars or Rey’s theme), and they include upward
leaps in pitch (the Siegfried theme by Wagner first appears
the third act of ). Die Walküre
in
downbeat (here the downbeats would be 1, 2 or 3). The
reason we are labelling it as a
is that
uneven theme
3-part
first two repetitions are syncopated, but the last version
the
This means we also have a rhythmic fingerprint for a hero or
heroine’s theme.
is all straight quavers (8th notes). The theme itself sounds
dark and exactly what we would expect for an evil magician,
being played in low brass colours. This means we have a
rhythmic fingerprint for villainous music.
ACTIVITY:
vs
technology until you have something that works.
using
to stick to the ‘fingerprints’ listed above
Remember
The Firebird
Star
Wars
and
your work as either notation or a mock-up
present
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version in GarageBand or SoundTrap.
ATL
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skills: Inquiring in different contexts to
Transfer
a different perspective
gain
◆■ Assessment opportunities
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this activity you have practised skills that
In
assessed using Criterion A: Knowledge and
are
Criterion C: Thinking creatively and
understanding,
D: Responding.
Criterion
pairs and play, sing or share your ideas with each other
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