Transcript Hero Music Composition

Hero Music Composition
Hero Music Characteristics
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Major tonality
Medium to fast tempo
Piano to forte dynamic range
High pitch predominately
Heavily featured strings and brass
instruments – in particular French horn
• Brass instruments are seen as heroic and
triumphant
Activity
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Using the guitar or keyboard, we are going
to compose a hero theme using the C
Major scale
A scale is any set of musical notes ordered
by fundamental frequency or pitch.
Preparing a composition
1. Think of a superhero and list three
characteristics
2. Your composition will be high pitched, fast
and forte.
3. Think of your melody, draw the shape of your
melody.
4. Your composition will start and end on C
5. Notate composition. It is to be 8 bars in length
Shape of melody →