Melody
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This list sequencer app will help users to plan, compose and perform their own version of Shepherds' Music. Based on track 11 of Saydisc Listen to This! KS3 - traditional music from Rajasthan.
Pupils work in threes: drone player, hand drummer and 'pentatonic' melody using D E F# A (+ optional B). The app offers four textural combinations of these parts, which can be developed either as a performance plan, or as a backing to support performance / improvisation if not all parts are represented in the working group.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Melody, Sequencers, Interactive Activities, Pentatonic Scales, India, Drone, Indian, List Sequencer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Short video clip (1 min.) in which the artist of the 'Charlie Brown' comic strip makes a very fast humorous sketch and commentates on his artistic approach. There is no music soundtrack.
KS3/4 idea: Compose a light humorous music track to accompany this clip. Focus on melody (accompaniment optional) and choose an instrumental sound that has a quirky character. Try to suggest humour by the way your melody moves.
Clip from the Roland Collection of Film on Art (www.rolandcollection.com). Used with kind permission of Anthony Roland.
Official classification: Melody, Painting, Paintings, Video, Curriculum support, The Roland Collection of Films on Art
Pupils can listen separately to each of the four melodic phrases from the Drunken Sailor. Then they can place them in order to recreate the piece (or place in their own order to create a new piece). Excellent exercise for KS1 or KS2 pupils for understanding pitch, shape and phrasing. See also 'Track 03 What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor' track explorer for prior listening.
Official classification: Listening, Graphical Notation, Arranging, Pitch, Rounds , Melody, Interactive Activities, Puzzle, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, List Sequencer, Melody
Live backing sequencer to support a composition or improvisation based on Track 02 Amanecer Andino (Andean Dawn) from Saydisc Percussion Around the World. (Also Track 01 of Saydisc Listen to This! KS3.) In the original recording there's a free slow introduction followed by a faster section based on C and Am chords, but with this tool users can decide their own structure.
KS2/3 idea - students can use this tool to provide an accompaniment while one student performs live their own version of a characteristic pentatonic melody on a separate instrument. Students can also use this tool for support as they play along and learn the ostinato drum and guitar parts.
Official classification: Percussion, Composing, Improvising, Rehearsing, Ostinato, Melody, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, The Andes, Curriculum support, Melody, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
The 'now and next' functions in the Live Sequencer tool allow students to create their own arrangement of the koto melody from Saydisc Listen To This KS3, track 4 Aki No Shirabe (Autumn Tune). Students also type in their own descriptions of each phrase so they can easily identify each one and demonstrate use of musical language. They can then trigger the phrases live to play in any chosen order. Perhaps this could be used to provide music for a dance or similar performance.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Changes in Volume, Silence, Phrasing, Melody, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, Japan, Koto, Curriculum support, Live Sequencer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
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