Musical Composition

Over the past few weeks in 3V, we have been learning about the way in which music can be used to create mood, and how different instruments can be used to represent different things.

First of all, we listened to Camille Saint-Saens' 'Carnival of the Animals' and tried to spot all the different instruments, and work out which piece related to which animal.

Then, we listened to Holst's Planet Suite and thought about the moods suggested by the different pieces of music.  We enjoyed thinking of 'WOW Words' to match each movement, and trying to guess which planet was which. Our favourites were Mars: Bringer of War and Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity. 

More recently, we have enjoyed composing our own pieces of music using the the glockenspiels.  It was tremendous fun and each group managed to create and perform a piece of music for the rest of the class.

Today, we have been looking at how music is written on a stave and the values of each of the musical notes.  We used a computer programme to compose our own short pieces of music with four beats to the bar.