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I have just finished creating the final resource for my Unit of Work. It includes screenshots of the prominent motifs used in “Eize Hu Chacham?” and a written outline for a composition task inspired by bars 11-24 of the movement. I have used this section for a later class arrangement in week 5, lesson 1,Continue reading “My Final Resource Complete!”

For a composition activity I am currently writing for my Year 12 class I am encouraging them to use the ideas panel in Sibelius. The ideas panel allows you to capture numerous ideas and in this particular task will students to capture four motifs to use in their own composition. It is an extremely usefulContinue reading “Using the Ideas Panel to Capture Motifs”

To introduce “Eize Hu Chacham” to my Year 12 class I have decided to start the unit off by singing a short excerpt from the movement. I have mostly copied the notes from the original score however I have noticed some of the notes sound different in the original recording so have changed them toContinue reading “Introducing the Melody”

Now that I have moved the polyrhythm performance from week 4, lesson 2 to week 5, lesson 1, I have more available time in the lesson. I have added a fun activity which allows students to practice playing a melody with boomwhackers before they break into groups to create their own boomwhacker arrangements. While thisContinue reading “More Boomwhacker Fun”

For week 4, lesson 2, I had begun with a hocket inspired activity and then had the class perform an excerpt from the focus piece which focused on polyrhythms. I decided that polyrhythms were too complex to chuck onto the end of a lesson so I have assigned an entire lesson (week 5, lesson 1)Continue reading “Rewriting a Lesson”

Yesterday, I received the score for my focus work Compassion by Nigel Westlake and Lior! After 2 weeks of worrying I wouldn’t get it in time to make all of my resources for this assignment, it has finally arrived and I was able to make numerous resources yesterday to accompany my unit of work. IContinue reading “A Day of Making Resources for my Unit of Work”

Over the years I have done this activity many times as a physical/mental choir warm-up however while writing my Year 12, Music 2 unit of work I have thought about it’s use as a starter activity to introduce multimetre. I didn’t know a specific name for the game/activity and couldn’t find a video tutorial onContinue reading “Mutlimeter Game / Choir Warm Up”

I have just finished creating the following handout for a year 12 class. The class has been looking at “Eize Hu Chacham” by Nigel Westlake and Lior and syncopation has been used significantly. I wanted to challenge the students to compose a piece focusing on syncopation without worrying too much about pitch and was givenContinue reading “Composition Focus: Syncopation”