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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