Topic 4 - Using Music Elements to Analyse and Compose
Section outline
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MUSIC ELEMENT
HOW I USED THIS ELEMENT TO CREATE MOVIE MUSIC
Pitch
Rhythm
Dynamics
Form/Structure
Timbre (instrumentation)
Now we are going to use our skills in reading and hearing music to analyse some movie themes. The movie themes will serve as inspiration for your composition assignment:
- Which instruments (timbre) will suit the theme you want to create?
- Where will your composition have volume changes (dynamics)?
- What sort of rhythms and patterns will it use (duration)?
- Will there be a lot of repeated notes or will the melody move around (pitch)?
- How many bars are the sections? Are any sections repeated later in the piece (form)?
After we have done our analysing you will be ready to finalise your composition assignment.