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Year 7

Minimalist composition

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This unit develops understanding of minimalism, including the context of the style and the main musical features used in creating minimalist compositions. Pupils compose and improvise in a minimalist style, including rhythmic and melodic patterns.

Pupils are introduced to new ideas of creating variety within a fundamentally repetitive structure, particularly the use of ostinati, changing textures and minimalist techniques such as retrograde. They are introduced to improvising with pitch, using the pentatonic scale as a musical starting point and they develop their understanding of using a DAW for pitch as well as rhythmic composition. They reinforce their understanding of what makes a musical idea successful and continue to learn techniques for developing musical ideas.

  1. Using rhythmic ostinati in minimalism
  2. Creating a melodic ostinato
  3. Creating and improvising contrasting ostinati
  4. Developing your minimalist composition
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