Composing and notating a minor melody
I can compose and notate a stylistic minor melody.
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- Year 5
Composing and notating a minor melody
I can compose and notate a stylistic minor melody.
Copyrighted materials: to view and download resources from this lesson, you’ll need to be in the UK and
Lesson details
Key learning points
- We can compose rhythms by selecting and arranging takadimi patterns.
- We can compose melodies by selecting pitches from the minor scale and assigning these to our composed rhythm.
- Effective melodies move mostly by step, with some leaps.
- We can use question and answer phrases to structure our melodies.
Keywords
Composition - a new piece of music that has been created
Improvisation - creating new musical ideas on the spot
Steps and leaps - melodies can move up or down one note at a time (steps) or jump up or down several notes (leaps)
Question and answer - a melody is often structured with a phrase that sounds like a question and an answering phrase
Common misconception
When composing, choosing a wide variety of complicated rhythms is more exciting than using simpler ones.
When starting composing it's often good to use mostly simpler rhythms, and to make use of repetition.
Equipment
Class set of pitched percussion instrument, pencils, rulers.
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