Book Review Musical Composition

Standards:

1.    4.1 Compose short pieces within specified guidelines, demonstrating how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and avariety, tension and release, and balance.

2.    4.2 Use a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing and arranging.

3.    8.1  Identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught are interrelated with those of music.

 

Project:

 

1.    Arrange a 1 minute composition using Garage Band to enhance an imovie commercial.

2.    The composition should consist of:  (minimum requirements)

a.     3 different tracks  of 3 different instruments.

b.    At least one loop should be copied in each track

c.     Use the volume adjuster to ensure balance

d.    The composition should contain the 3 basic parts;

-       Introduction

-       Middle(the heart of the composition that ends with the highest point of the song.)

-       Ending (tension from the high point is released and you feel a sense of resolution)

e.     The composition sets the tone or feeling of the book.

 

 

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