REVISED FINAL PROJECT!

Composition

Revised

	Final Project

The minimum requirements for your handwritten final composition project:

8 measures

Single line melody

One clear key choice (hint: begin on root or 5^th of the indicated key, end on root of indicated key)

Major or minor key (other than C Major) -- This melody CANNOT be in C Major.

I repeat: THIS MELODY CANNOT BE IN C MAJOR! Thank you!

Don’t forget to use:

Variety of rhythms (whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes)

Variety of musical elements (range, dynamics, timbre, tempo, rhythm, melody)

Since it is handwritten:

All notes must be written neatly, using proper placement within the barline.

Score should be properly organized and have – Song Title, Composer Name, Instrument, Clef Sign, Key Signature, Time Signature and Copyright

DUE BY FRIDAY MAY 18th

Musical key and Mood

From the English translation of Helmholtz's Tonempfindungen:


"Today many musicians claim to hear the different characteristics very clearly, and associate them with the emotional quality of the music. They will tell us that music played in the "open" key of C major---with neither flats nor sharps in the key signature---sounds strong and virile; played in the key of G, with one sharp, it sounds brighter and lighter; in D, with two sharps, even more so; and so on. Every additional sharp in the key signature is supposed to add to the brightness and sparkle of the music, while every flat contributes softness, pensiveness, and even melancholy.




Click here to discover what mood F# Major (and others) convey

Mood and Emotion in Music - Lesson 6

How do composers convey mood and emotion in music?

View Slideshow

excerpt from THE RAVEN Edgar Allen Poe

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!'This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!'Merely this and nothing more.


With each listening example - ask yourself...
What song am I listening to?
Does this song convey the mood of The Raven?
Why? Or why not!? Think of specific things you are hearing (instruments, tempo, articulation, melody)

If you were not in class - After viewing slideshow &/or reading the Poe excerpt, turn in a paper answering these questions with each of the 3 listening examples (links below).


Example 1
Example 2
Example 3

Rhythm - Lesson 5

In handwriting rhythmic notation, there are rules!


** Beam notes within the same beat. Or across strong beats (like 1&2 or 3&4)

** Make stems longer when beaming notes further apart The note which is furthest away from the middle line tells us which way we should draw our stems.
(stem should be at least 3 lines, or 2 spaces, long)


** Dots and flags always go to the right of the note head.



Click here for a rhythm worksheet


If you missed class -- Print off the 1st page of the above rhythm worksheet and turn it in. You must write in the rhythms using the rhythm line a la Mr. Barnes (the clapped or played rhythm above the line and the subdivisions below the line). If you are confused - come see Ms. P for clarification.


IDEA --------- for assisting in composing your melody.
Figure out a rhythm sequence you like, then choose a scale and improvise until you like what you hear. Write it down!

Compound Meter Subdivisions

Subdivisions in Simple Meter

Simple meter subdivisions