CASMA

We are taking part in CASMA this year and are finding the Benjamin Britten songs particularly difficult to learn. Here is a link to a website where you can download the lyrics, music and backing tracks. You will need to register, which is free, to get access to all these resources (scroll down the page for the link). Alternatively you can listen to performances by scrolling down and clicking on 'listen to Britten's Friday afternoons' - you do not need to register for this.

We need to learn:
Begone, dull care!
A tragic story
Cuckoo!
Ee-oh
Jazz-man
There was a monkey
Old Abram Brown

Homework - water music

This week the homework is a little different and even more open ended.

As part of our water topic we have been composing water themed music at school. The homework is also water themed music.

This could be:

• finding out about music already composed that has a water theme - modern music, classical music (youtube has many pieces of music on it) - writing down the name of the piece of music, who composed it and when, perhaps describing what the music is like, what instruments are used, how it sounds like water, whether you like it etc.

or

• composing your own piece of music - either using instruments and recording it (these can be traditional instruments e.g. piano or other ways of making sounds e.g. plastic bags rustling, tapping glasses with water in etc. - or using a piece of software like Garage Band or soundation.com to compose a piece of electronic music

Composing music

We have been composing music with a water theme using a variety of tuned and untuned instruments. Check out the new VLE for our latest compositions.

We are also going to be using ICT to create an electronic composition. Soundation Studio is a great online music sequencer (a bit like Garage Band). Hopefully we will create some more great music!