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Year 5

Compose and rehearse: creating and combining minimalist cells

6 lessons

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  • Creating, composing and improvising
  • Music over time and in different places
  • Notating and sharing music
  • Playing together in an ensemble
  • Practising and preparing for a performance

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This unit introduces minimalism with its repetitive, hypnotic, short musical cells. Pupils will use Terry Riley’s In C to inspire their compositions. Working in groups, pupils will create short musical cells and decide how to use these to create and rehearse a larger minimalist piece.

At this point in the pupils' musical journey, they have composed using a variety of toneset and rhythm patterns. They have layered sounds using drones and rhythmic and melodic ostinati and have learnt effective strategies for rehearsing as part of an ensemble. In this unit, the pupils build on these skills, using their knowledge of pitch, texture, rhythm, ostinato and their rehearsing skills to create a minimalist structure. The pupils will continue to develop this in later units when exploring polyrhythms and syncopation in ensemble playing and singing.

  1. The key features of minimalist music
  2. Creating and notating a repeating minimalist cell
  3. Adding more minimalist cells to create a thicker texture
  4. Notating minimalist cells
  5. Rehearsing effectively to improve a minimalist performance
  6. Performing, appraising, reflecting on and improving a minimalist performance

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