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

version of fairytales. They give the characters
world’s
endings (sometimes gruesome ones) and place
different
twist on the morals that the original stories held. The
a
are illustrated by Quentin Blake, and the BBC
poems
the works into an animated film with superb
turned
in 2016.
music
this activity, we will transfer all our experiments and
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patterns to composing for a short segment of
improvised
Dahl’s version of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’
Roald
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ACTIVITY: Revolting Rhymes
Using the rhythmic patterns in Figure 2.53 of ‘crime
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one, crime two, crime three, crime four’ attach your
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Communication skills: Writing for different purposes
chosen notes to each rhythm. Then chant / play
through the selection until you are satisfied with how
it sounds.
Roald Dahl’s (1916–1990)
Revolting Rhymes
parody our
3 Add to the narrative
This is where you combine your notated music,
collaborate with a narrator and perform your work
to a live audience. Remember: You want them to
interpret your intent through the music and narration.
Go through the poem, repeating this process of
finding the rhythmic pattern, notating it, then
attaching notes from your chosen pitch set.
can actually listen to a version composed by Kurt
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on the playlist for more advanced creative work.
Schwertsik
Three-Bears), which has a gory twist at the end.
4 The Bears
1 Developing a rhythm set
the
a
In the story, there are three bears. Using
Using the poem itself, we can interpret the rhymes as
the pitch material above,
b
rhythmic material and
rhythms, generating our own material just by reading
write a short four-measure tune for each bear. Try
it out loud. So do that first! The opening lines can be
to consider their size, age and role in the story. How
chanted in many different ways, but as you do this try
would you interpret each bear’s theme?
to write down rhythm notes for each syllable that you
‘speak’ (see Figure 2.52).
2 Developing a pitch set
Once you have experimented with chanting the
words, we need to improvise over a select group of
◆ Assessment opportunities
notes for different parts of the story. This is called a
pitch set. But which notes and how many? The best
this activity you have practised skills that are
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using Criterion B: Developing skills,
assessed
news is that this is completely up to you! Just keep
the set (or group of notes) to around 4–6 notes on a
C: Thinking creatively and Criterion D:
Criterion
Responding.
piano or your instrument (for example do re mi so si
la, c d e g g# a).
RHYMING IS MORE THAN JUST TIMING
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Figure 2.52 Figure 2.53
Rhythm set ideas based on Roald Dahl’s
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A pitch set of Crime
poem of ‘Goldilocks’