Composing+from+a+picture

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You can use your "picture score" in a number of ways. Include found tunes or your own inventions. Use voices/instruments/body percussion. Some of the ways are: 1. Tell the ‘story’, tracking from one section of the pictures to another. 2. Create the collage of sounds you would hear. Include found. 3. Narrator and music (make sure that you extend your ideas from KS1 and combinations and groups of sounds, melodic or rhythmic patterns, simple melodies or ostinati.  4.  Compose a piece of music, which shows how one character might feel.  5.  Can you make music for characters to move to?  6.  How can you combine songs you know to make a composition?   In addition   1)  Compile a list of songs which relate to this topic. 2) Suggest to which curriculum areas this applies    Identify on paper the process of your composition.

Picture -- Discussion Negotiation Exploring possible sounds/rhythms/melodies Choosing sounds What rules did you lay down for yourselves? What constraints did you find? Do you use all or part of picture? Why? __Score: __ Did you need to write down more instruction to your score?

Example of teaching plan from QCA.