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Music Technology I (SCP) 802
Composition

TIME FRAME: 1 week
GRADE: 9-12
CONTACT: Music Faculty

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01.2 THE ARTS - MUSIC

01.2.4.0.1 -- Students will create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations

01.2.4.0.2 -- Students will create and arrange short songs and instrumental pieces within specified guidelines

01.2.4.0.3 -- Students will use a variety of sound sources when composing.

01.2.4.5.1 -- Students will compose short pieces within specified guidelines, demonstrating how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety, tension and release, and balance

01.2.4.5.2 -- Students will arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which the pieces were written

01.2.4.5.3 -- Students will use a variety of traditional and nontraditional sound sources and electronic media when composing and arranging.

01.2 THE ARTS - MUSIC

01.2.4.9.1 -- Students will compose music in several distinct styles, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect

01.2.4.9.2 -- Students will arrange pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which the pieces were written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music

01.2.4.9.3 -- Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional use of the sound sources.

01.2.6.0.3 -- Students will use appropriate terminology in explaining music, music notation, music instruments and voices, and music performances

01.2.6.5.1 -- Students will describe specific music events in a given aural example, using appropriate terminology

01.2.6.5.3 -- Students will demonstrate knowledge of the basic principles of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords and harmonic progressions in their analyses of music.

01.2 THE ARTS - MUSIC

01.2.6.9.2 -- Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music

01.2.6.9.3 -- Students will identify and explain compositional devices and techniques used to provide unity and variety and tension and release in a musical work, and give examples of other works that make similar uses of these devices and techniques.

01.2 THE ARTS - MUSIC



How do the elements of melody and harmony work together to form a composition?
What are the elements of tension and release within a composition?
How do you compose using different musical forms?




In this unit, the student will begin to put together all of the elements learned up to this point. He/she will compose short progressions using the correct rules of harmonic progressions and compose a melody that will work with said progression.

Students will be advised on what elements help to make a strong progression and a strong melody while also allowing the child to use his/her own creativity.

Students will discuss proper voice leading and leading tone resolution.



The student will:
Compose a chord progesssion using the correct rules of harmonic progression
Compose a melody that complements a given chord progression
Explain and demonstrate the rules of voice leading within their compositions



Each student will:

Compose 8-16 measure compositions using correct chord progressions and voice leading.

Compose melodies that complement the above mentioned progressions

Input their compositions onto the computer via Finale Music Software program

Have class discussions providing constructive criticism on all the students in the music technology class's compositions



Students will be assessed via:

Written quizzes/tests, composition assignments, class discussion



"Tonal Harmony, 4th Edition" (1990), Stefan Kostka & Dorothy Payne, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-241996-2

Lesson , "Practical THEORY Complete" (1982), Sandy Feldstein, Alfred Publishing Co, Inc., ISBN 0-88284-225-0