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Composition AABA example

Composition AABA with drone

Banaha

Warm ups

Reading and performing minor melodies

Music

Identifying major and minor tonalities

Minor melodies and the minor pentachord

Reading the five note minor pentachord scale

Reading and playing minor melodies

Composing and notating a minor melody

In this unit, pupils learn songs and listen to music that has a minor tonality. Pupils learn the toneset for the minor pentachord (la, ti, do, re, mi) and use this to compose a minor melody. An analysis of Benjamin Britten’s Old Abram Brown inspires the shaping of the pupils' compositions.

Compose and Create: composing a minor melody on a stave

Keep to a slow, steady tempo and listen to each other.

Keep focussed on your own playing, trying to block out the other musician.

If you make a mistake, take time to go back and correct it.

Which suggestion below would help two musicians to stay in time?

What common structure did you use for your melody this lesson?

Play quickly so it doesn't take too long.

Start again if you make a mistake, to make sure your performance is perfect.

Use rehearsal time to play your piece over and over until you know it well.

How should you make sure you can deliver a confident performance?

jumping between notes that are far away from each other

moving to the note directly above or below

What is meant by a melody that uses steps?

Is the following pattern ascending or descending: mi, re, do, ti, la?

play as quickly as possible to make your piece sound exciting

play slowly to make sure you have plenty of time to find the next note

speed up when you get to a bit you know well

When rehearsing for a performance it is best to ...

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Reading and performing minor melodies

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.