Free composition: Creative starting points
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Why this why now
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils have been introduced to a range of different musical starting points for composition including melodic ideas, chords and bass lines
- Pupils have composed short melodies, motifs and riffs and triad chord progressions
- Pupils have developed short compositional ideas within recommended genres
- Pupils can interpret notation and follow a score
- Pupils have extended chord sequences by using inversions and broken chords
- Pupils have been introduced to dissonance
Why this why now
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils have been introduced to a range of different musical starting points for composition including melodic ideas, chords and bass lines
- Pupils have composed short melodies, motifs and riffs and triad chord progressions
- Pupils have developed short compositional ideas within recommended genres
- Pupils can interpret notation and follow a score
- Pupils have extended chord sequences by using inversions and broken chords
- Pupils have been introduced to dissonance
Free composition: Creative starting points
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