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Composing

5 th Grade General Music Marshall Middle School 2011. Composing. What is Composing? . Writing your own music. Someone who composes is called a composer. Who are some famous composers? What is the difference between composing and arranging? Improvising?. What tools do we need?.

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Composing

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  1. 5th Grade General Music Marshall Middle School 2011 Composing

  2. What is Composing? • Writing your own music. • Someone who composes is called a composer. • Who are some famous composers? • What is the difference between composing and arranging? Improvising?

  3. What tools do we need? • Just like a good writer needs tools like grammar, spelling, a vocabulary, a composer has tools to help write music. • Notes, Rhythms, Time signatures, Clefs • Instruments and Voices

  4. 1st Composition • With a partner, write a short song for unpitched percussion. • The song should be unision. • The second time may be a duet.

  5. 2nd Composition • With an partner, create a simple ostinato for body percussion and add a vocal melody. • The ostinato will act as an accompaniment. • When writing lyrics it is best to first form a topic. The lines may rhyme but rhyming is not required.

  6. 3rd Composition • You will compose a simple melody for a mallet instrument. The melody must be written on a staff, with a clef, time signature, bar lines, a rhythms (it must look like music) • A few hints: a good melody moves scale-wise, ends and starts on the same note, and uses quarter notes and eighth notes.

  7. Final Composition • This will use all of the skills we have developed so far. • In small groups, you will write a song with multiple parts (not unison) using all of the musical tools (notes rhythms etc.) that is at least 16 measures in length. • You may use mallets, unpitched percussion, body percussion, or vocals.

  8. Tips for your Final Composition • Use a variety of instruments • Write all of you ideas down and then decide if you will keep them. • Don’t be afraid to experiment or make a mistake. • If you write more than one melodic part choose notes that work well together; usually space notes sound good with other space notes and lines notes sound good with other line notes.

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