Fusing together and arranging musical ideas
I can select and combine musical ideas and work effectively as part of an ensemble to create a fusion piece.
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- Year 6
Fusing together and arranging musical ideas
I can select and combine musical ideas and work effectively as part of an ensemble to create a fusion piece.
Copyrighted materials: to view and download resources from this lesson, you’ll need to be in the UK and
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Different people might have different ideas of what works well in a fusion performance.
- Everyone responds to music in different ways.
- Fusion music forms a deliberate and new synthesis of styles.
- Experimenting, developing and rejecting ideas is a crucial part of the artistic journey of creating a piece.
Keywords
Fusion - the process of blending two or more different musical styles, genres, or traditions to create a new, distinct sound
Practise - to deliberately make an effort to improve musical skills
Structure - the way the music is orgnaised
Common misconception
Fusion music always requires specific, identifiable elements from each original style.
The fusion of styles can be so integrated that the original influences become indistinguishable.
Equipment
A class set of pitched and unpitched percussion instruments.
Licence
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