Transcript Remember - Organising Sounds

Music by Marian Ingoldsby
Poem by Christina Rossetti
Tasks
In your pairs read the poem ‘Remember’.
• Describe the music that you might compose for
this poem.
• Listen to a recording of the song ‘Remember’.
• Describe the music the composer wrote for this
poem.
Some children’s reactions
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‘It was soft’.
‘It was slow, except for the fast bit’.
‘The tune came back lots’.
‘The piano was like ripples. I thought it was
looking at reflections of the dead person and
each chord was a different memory’.
• ‘The fast bit was cool, like getting a happy
thought suddenly’.
• ‘I love the melody. It was a little sad but not
grieving too much like their friend said not to do’.
Let’s find these A phrases
And in the right order…
Now let’s sing the words
Now let’s try the whole song
• Children sing the A phrases.
• Teacher responds with the other phrases.
Teaching Outcomes
• Poetry and music
• Composing elements: mood, melody, rhythm,
dynamics, accompaniment
• Tonic solfa and Kodaly hand signs
• Rhythmic recognition
• ‘A’ phrases taught by solfa and rhythm recognition
• ‘B’ phrases introduced by rote
• Triplets
• Dotted rhythm
Further Potential
• Integration: English, Religion, Art
• Decisions made by composer
• Rhythmic variations e.g. dotted crotchet and
quaver; triplets and rests
• Mood e.g. in the middle instrumental section
• Solo part for a tin whistle or recorder player
• Ornamentation
• Tempo changes
Piano accompaniment supplied