Key Learning Objectives: To explore minimalism through a variety of media, manipulating sounds and media. To compose / notate / perform a minimalist composition. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise, based on the work ‘Changes’ by the contemporary Bristol composer John Pitts. Create a shifting pattern of actions, choosing five actions, repeating them until a good […]
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Secondary Curriculum – Pathway to a Piece: Lesson 1, Main 1: Active Bach Listening
Time: 15 minutes Group size: Whole Class/Individual Tag words: solo, violins, orchestra, notation, changes, texture, chords, structure, sketch, blocks, colours Play the class the first movement of Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor. Tell the pupils that the piece is for two solo violins and a string orchestra. Watch with the animated notation: […]