Aural Experiences

• Listen to Pat Methney – First Circle.

  • Students to clap along to the clapping rhythm, followed by discussion of perception of rhythm and rhythmic cells.

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• Notation of classroom composed rhythmic cells (standard and other types), and discussion of hocketing effect created (and defined). Use of dovetailing as a way to join layers. Use of a limited pitch set in the rhythmic cells.

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• Weekly Individual Sight Singing Tasks

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• Sight Singing/Interval Training: Motif from Penguin Café Orchestra – Perpetuum Mobile

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• Students​ compose a cross rhythm and notate it.

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• Returning to Rush, in pairs, students are given sections of the piece to create a texture diagram, focussing on repeated patterns, changes in texture, and instrumental roles. Students use the classroom texture diagram of Time as a model. This is to be uploaded onto the classroom EverNote, and combined into a single large texture diagram for the entire work.

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• Weekly Individual Sight singing Task: Bars 1-17 of Bach – Crucifixus, Mass in B minor BWV232  

  • To be completed before next lesson– Audio or Video to be recorded, and submitted to Google Classroom submission box

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• Melody Dictation: Theme of Beethoven – 32 Variations in C minor. Some rhythm provided. Students complete harmonic analysis of the theme, noting chromatic descending bassline.

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• Students presented with contemporary notation examples from Bree Van Reyk – Light For The First Time. Discussion of how it would be played, followed by in-class performance of the aleatoric section. Aural comparison of in-class performance with official recording by Ensemble Offspring.

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• Students to create notation for their piece, applying production techniques in Logic or Garageband to their composition.

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• Students present composition with analysis, relating how they have reused the compositional tools and features from Rush in their own piece. Peer feedback, using the language of the concepts created using Coggle throughout the unit.