Watch the video above for a demonstration of how to create an easy composition with your class!
It’s easier than you think to get your students improvising and creating short compositions, you don’t even need instruments. This video demonstrates a simple composition using the sounds of a train as inspiration, using only voice, breath and movement. Experiment with creating different types of machines, objects or even places. You might like to include some body percussion too. Think about how you can create a beginning, middle and an end to your composition.
In this video, we layer the sounds in one-by-one, gradually building the dynamics with a crescendo and then fade out in the same way we came in. This is a great way to create a clear and simple structure for your group soundscape or composition activities.
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Develop aural skills by exploring and imitating sounds, pitch and rhythm patterns using voice, movement and body percussion ACAMUM080
Create compositions and perform music to communicate ideas to an audience ACAMUM082
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Develop aural skills by exploring, imitating and recognising elements of music including dynamics, pitch and rhythm patterns ACAMUM084
Create, perform and record compositions by selecting and organising sounds, silence, tempo and volume ACAMUM086
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Explore dynamics and expression, using aural skills to identify and perform rhythm and pitch patterns ACAMUM088
Rehearse and perform music including music they have composed by improvising, sourcing and arranging ideas and making decisions to engage an audience ACAMUM090
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Develop musical ideas, such as mood, by improvising, combining and manipulating the elements of music ACAMUM093
Science - physical sciences: exploring objects and phenomena and the way they move
Drama - use voice, facial expression, body, movement and space to imagine and establish role and situation in improvisation and dramatic action
Visual Arts - create artworks to communicate ideas to an audience, using materials, techniques and processes to explore machines and their functions
This is an example of the teaching resources you will receive when booking Musica Viva In Schools program, The Air I Breathe.
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