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Exploring Music with Hans Zimmer: A Classroom Lesson Plan

Dive into the world of film composer Hans Zimmer with this engaging lesson plan focusing on music creation and ensemble performance. Learn about orchestral music, compose your own piece, and perform as a group to enhance musical skills.

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Exploring Music with Hans Zimmer: A Classroom Lesson Plan

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  1. Hans Zimmer Earth Secondary / KS3 / 3rd & 4th Level Classroom Lesson Plan Written by Rachel Leach

  2. Trailblazer Film composer Hans Zimmer uses all sorts of different techniques to create music. He has helped shape the sound of today’s film, tv and games music

  3. Lesson outcomes After this lesson, pupils will be able to: • listen and reflect on a piece of orchestral music • create their own piece of music using instruments and voice • perform as an ensemble • learn musical language appropriate to the task

  4. Curriculum checklist Learners will: • play and perform in ensemble contexts, using voices and playing musical instruments • improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music • listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory

  5. Glossary of music terms

  6. Lesson 1 Watching and listening

  7. Background – the composer Hans ZIMMER (b. 1957) • Self-taught German film composer • Has composed more than 150 films scores and been nominated for ten Oscars • Loves using technology, synthesizers, samplers and computers as well as the orchestra

  8. Background – the music Earth • Written especially for BBC Ten Pieces • Draws upon the soundworld he used for Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II – two of his most popular scores • This isn’t a film score (it wasn’t written for a movie) but it does sound very ‘filmic’

  9. Watch the orchestral performance

  10. Listen carefully, and create a ‘list of events’ in the music

  11. Create a storyboard! What images would you like to see with each of these events?

  12. Lesson 2 Make the film to fit the music

  13. Let’s start filming! If you have recording equipment, then great; if not, have a look at existing film clips on the internet and try editing these

  14. Lesson 3 Recreating Zimmer - atmosphere

  15. Create a shimmery warm-up Play pitches on your instruments, similar to Zimmer at the beginning of his piece. Make sure they are really quiet, or pianissimo

  16. Lesson 4 Recreating Zimmer – three-note patterns

  17. It gets much busier in the middle of Zimmer’s piece – what do you think is happening? Choose three notes from these pitches and play them at different speeds

  18. Which instruments should play which note lengths? Try this out on the instruments that you have and see what sounds the best

  19. Lesson 5 ‘Life on Earth’ - leitmotifs

  20. Have a brainstorm! What can you think of that is associated with the earth – maybe landscape, life on the planet or scientific facts

  21. Create a musical motif for the things on your list. Make a short piece using these motifs: • What goes first? • What goes last? • Do the motifs fit together? • Do the motifs overlap or repeat?

  22. Lesson 6 ‘Spot’ a film, perform to picture

  23. Play your chosen or filmed clip to the group WITHOUT sound Note down absolutely everything that is heard, including characters, events, actions, emotions and scenery

  24. Structure all ideas, and use them to make a piece of music that fits with the film

  25. Perform your live score to picture!

  26. Taking it further – cross-curricular activities MUSIC: Explore the other planets with Holst’s Planet Suite. Mars features on BBC Ten Pieces. MUSIC: Zimmer has a lot in common with another BBC Ten Pieces composer – Delia Derbyshire. She created the theme to ‘Doctor Who’. Zimmer has made many tv themes and like Delia, he is a huge fan of electronic music. FILM: Watch some of Hans Zimmer’s greatest film music moments and have a go at creating your own film music by muting the sound and playing your new compositions on top. ‘Blue Planet’ and ‘Planet Earth’ are good places to start. UPLOAD: Showus what you’ve created! Submit your creative responses using our Uploader for a chance to be featured on the Ten Pieces website .

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