How to apply music into my generalist classroom
I really liked the way Bill linked making music with everyday items (linked to Australian curriculum: Sustainability under the Cross Curriculum Priorities). I have added an audio of my music composition.Sarah's Music Composition
(If the above playing widget doesn't work, please download the composition).
This was creating and performing music. It used:
- rhythm - although their were no silences within the whole composition, each individual sound had silences.
- pitch - the composition stayed the same throughout so the pitch did not change.
- dynamics - this stayed the same throughout the composition.
- harmony - throughout the piece there are different sounds with different pitches, making the piece easy to take apart if you wanted to.
- texture - towards the end of the composition some sounds stop, making the texture different as there are not so many sounds together.
- form - we did not have a plan when we composed this piece of music, we used kitchen utensils, recorded each sound on Garage Band and added them all together.
(Australian
Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015)
Linking to English would be simple as the children could
listen to a piece of music and write how it made them feel, the emotions the
music evoked. They could also compose a
piece of music and write a narrative behind the music.
Music is easily incorporated into any area of the curriculum with a little creativity.
References
References
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
[ACARA]. (2015). Australian Curriculum: The arts. (version 7.5). Canberra.
Retrieved from: http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/the-arts/music/glossary
Really love your composition. It sounded as if it had been edited, which was quite good! Was it a single take, or did you use some post-production editing?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to try out this in the classroom, I think children of all ages will love it.
Will have to be careful not to disrupt other classes!! :)