scene audio

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scene video

note cluster audio

pedal audio

practice - excerpt 1 audio

practice - excerpt 2 audio

practice - excerpt 3 audio

chromatic movement audio

approaching a haunted house audio

walking across a graveyard in the dark audio

Creating scary music

Music

The effect of timbre

Composing music that doesn't sound scary

Developing a motif

Composing music for an extended story

Creating a sense of style

Pupils learn about programmatic and descriptive music and how music can be used to set the scene. They compose a piece of music to accompany a story that includes a recurring motif and demonstrates an understanding of how key/chromatics and other musical elements can have an impact on the mood.

Atmospheric music

Chromatic movement uses notes that are {{}} together to create an eerie sound.

A group of notes close together that clash and create tension is called a {{}}.

They create tension beneath other changing notes.

What effect do pedal notes have in scary music?

can speed up or slow down to reflect movement

can get louder or softer to build suspense

patterns that can create repetitive, unsettling ideas

Match each musical element to how it can reflect a scene in scary music.

random notes won’t create a clear mood or effect

Why is it NOT true that any pitch or note will work in a scary composition?

A strong scary musical idea is often {{}} and repetitive.

Pitch describes whether a sound is {{}} or low.

Dynamics describe whether music is loud or {{}}.

a selection of long and short note durations in a pattern

A short musical pattern that is repeated many times is called an {{}}.

A {{}} is a long, held note that continues under other changing parts.

Creating scary music

Lesson outcome