Creative Music Class

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4/6/2020

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Drone Zone

4/5/2020

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Explore composing with a drone bass
https://ask.audio/articles/how-sound-affects-you-using-drones-in-your-music

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Lesson Plans at TES

3/26/2020

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Check out the many creative music composition lesson plans now listed at TES
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So So Simple

3/17/2020

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Students play (or sing) the given “Question” phrase so-so-so (GGG). Teacher makes up and plays the “Answer” phrase. Teachers: select the concept you are working on, e.g., repeated notes (M1 and 2 below), thirds (M3 below), triads (M4 and 5 below), neighbor notes (M6 and 7), running notes, dotted rhythms, triplets, etc. in your Answer phrase.
Switch. Teacher plays the “Question” phrase (the so-so-so or GGG), students (one at a time) respond in an improvisatory manner with “Answer” phrases based on the parameters you provided (triads, neighbor notes, repeated notes, etc.).
Next step, work on writing down some of the improvisatory responses.
Use the “So, So, Simple” template and fill in the blank measures
(individually or in small groups).
Demonstrate a class composition with the whole group

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Another fun online composing tool

2/28/2020

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Fun online composing tool for the younger kids! Check it out at https://www.classicsforkids.com/games/compose_your_own_music.php

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Google's Song Maker

1/21/2020

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Fun composing on the online Song Maker! Try it out!
Song Maker https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/

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10/14/2019

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Top Seller

5/31/2019

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Our top seller this past school year has been "Music Composition for Teens - a Graded First Course" Available on amazon. Get yours now for the new school year. Enjoy!

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Introduce the topic: “We are going to compose cellphone ringtones”.
Listen to some well-known ringtones (select a few from your cellphone). Below I selected a few from my iPhone. Listen and discuss, e.g.:
Play the ringtone, have students identify the instrument, pattern, rhythm, melody and/or any other descriptors:
Ascending: ascending major scale on xylophone
Bell Tower: classic bell/chime melody
Marimba: short, catchy pattern on marimba
Piano riff: five melody notes on piano
Timba: drumming pattern, no melody
Xylophone: short melody, catchy rhythm on xylophone

Display the notation and practice one or two of the ringtones OR
Listen to the ringtones and try to notate the ringtone with your students.
End this explorative phase with quick Q & A: how long are the little
melodies? How many instruments are used per melody? Etc.

This lesson can be introduced in two ways:
1. Provide a sample ringtone to develop
  Students use a given ringtone, e.g. “Marimba” or “Timba” to inspire the composition of a “variation” ringtone. They use a given instrument, select the notes for a melody, select note values made into one or two rhythms, and through explorative play and improvisation come up with a short 5 – 10 tone ringtone. Depending on the age group and ability, these compositions may simply be recorded or otherwise notated.
2. Guided composition of a new ringtone
  Provide a rubric. Students generate a completely new ringtone based on the parameters. Teachers, generate the rubric based on your curriculum; note values you’re studying in class, note names you’re learning, etc.
  Ringtones are 30 seconds max.
  Ringtones “loop”: make sure beginnings and endings match to link.

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Tale Tiles

2/20/2019

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Students compose a piece of music directed by a set of graphic notation sound tiles which they will use to write a short narrative or poem and perform as multimedia orchestrated work for narration, sound effects, instrumental parts and/or images.

Step 1
Introduce the tile. Discuss how symbols on the tile may be interpreted. E.g.

Notice that sound has pitch: top of the tile would be high pitched. Diagonal lines downwards can suggest pitch drop. So this tile could be performed starting on a high pitched “ah” and dropping the voice to a very low pitch.
Notice that sound has volume. The larger letters and funnel shape suggests loud, the smaller letter and narrowing funnel shape suggests a decrescendo in sound.
Notice that the tile has a top and bottom (for high and low), and left and right (for sound progression).
Step 2
This lesson can be introduced in two ways:

Provide ready-made sound tiles
Students use the tiles to generate a story. They order the set of tiles in any order, associate an event, time or place to the tile, generate and hone the narrative, decide on the performance of the graphic notation tile (voice, instrument, sound maker) and assemble the composition for narration, voice, instruments and sound effects.
Provide the narrative
Provide a short narrative or poem. Students generate a set of sound tiles to indicate sound happenings in the story. Produce the tiles, order the tiles, perform the narrative and voice, instruments and sound effects.

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