Year 10 - Music
Making more of rhythmic ideas
Free Composition: Extending ideas
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Lesson Summary
You will learn to create longer phrases of material by developing small rhythmic ideas.
Key Notes
- Composers should carefully consider how to use rhythm.
- Composers can use augmentation and diminution to develop musical ideas, such as new melodic ideas or countermelodies.
- Our composing skills develop through making the most of small musical ideas.
- Using rhythmic devices creates interest and variety for the listener.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Augmentation: Augmentation is when you proportionally increase the note lengths of a rhythm.
- Diminution: Diminution is when you proportionally decrease the note lengths of a rhythm.
- Countermelody: A countermelody is a secondary melody played at the same time as the main melody.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Augmentation and diminution are not the same as augmented and diminished.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Composers should carefully consider how to use rhythm. Composers can use augmentation and diminution to develop musical ideas, such as new melodic ideas or countermelodies.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Augmentation'
Augmentation is when you proportionally increase the note lengths of a rhythm.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Augmentation and diminution are not the same as augmented and diminished. Correction: Augmentation and diminution are devices that affect the rhythm of music. Augmented and diminished are types of chords and refer to the harmony of music.
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