The document provides guidance on composing descriptive music to meet several goals: creating a stylistic background with a range of instruments to accompany existing melodies without overpowering them; writing effective countermelodies that provide contrast to the main themes; and writing melodies suited to characters using appropriate instruments, tempo, and other musical elements to represent those characters. It also discusses pre-planning assessments to define curriculum excellence and using assessment data to evaluate and improve teaching.
4. To compose a piece of music with a range of melodies,
counter-melodies, accompaniment and stylistic idiomatic
features, to create descriptive music to a given brief.
To create a stylistic and idiomatic background for the melodic content
already composed. This should include a range of instruments suitable to
the musical setting of the brief, and use tempo, texture, dynamics, pitch,
rhythm and timbre creatively to not overpower the melodies.
To write effective countermelodies to form background music against the
main themes in a piece. These countermelodies will not detract from the
main melody, but will provide contrast using differences in pitch, rhythm,
dynamics, appropriate instrumentation and timbre.
To write effective melodies to suit the main characters in a story using
appropriate instruments, tempo, pitch, rhythm, dynamics, timbre and key
to accurately represent that character.
5. Assessment Goal 2
Pre-plan assessments
to help define
curriculum excellence.
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