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How I am Details Teacher comments

Creating, organising and

developing my musical ideas

I began by creating an

ostinato for my Chinese

piece, using the pentatonic

scale (black notes only). I

chose a tune for this ostinatothat would be easy for a

melody to join over the top of

it.

Selecting and controlling

instruments and/or resources

As I wasnt sure what

instruments would fit well

with my piece, for now I had

just stuck to using the grand

piano as it would be easier in

the future to change to the

instruments I wanted.

Using structure and/or form

Using harmonic language and

accompaniment style to

communicate

I havent decided yet what

type of form I would like my

piece in but I think binary

form would fit best as I can

develop my ideas as my piece

develops

GCSE Music CompositionTitleAOS

Centre number: 71523


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Then I added in my tune. I

tried to make a melody that

would be able to sing back, I

made it simple at first and as

I went onto idea B and A

again I would develop my

ideas adding variations.



I have still kept my

instrumentation to a grand

piano, but I think I will use a

Chinese erhu whenever I

have completed my piece.




communicate

I have decided to to keep this

at a binary form as I feel in

my second A section I will be

able to add more

instrumentation to make mypiece more developed and

make the texture thicker.


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Whenever I had got my

melody to fit in with my

ostinato I then began to add

other instruments to make the

texture of my piece thicker

and to make a crescendo

throughout the piece.



To make my Chinese tune

have more of a Chinese feel

and running through it, used

the Asian kit, including

cymbals and drums.




communicate

As my piece plays I begin to

use more instruments to make

the dynamics of my piece

louder and to create more of a

Chinese feel to my piece.


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Jenni shaws piece 2.




I firstly began to create my

first idea for my section A.

For this, I decided that I

would take this idea and

repeat it the second time with

a variation at the end of this

section so you can tell that

the piece has came to a new

section.



I worked on this piece on a

grand piano, I feel I will keep

it at this instrumentation as it

gives the piece a sense of


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floating and dreaming.




communicate

For this piece I think I will

use binary form as I can have

a few ideas in my piece and

show off different variations

as my piece went on.




I then began to create my

middle section or my section

B. In this section I have

decided to use a runningscale of F and make

variations throughout this

piece. I used the idea that one

side was asking a question

with an answer, I feel this

was a good idea as it created


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like an animal feel like, for

example birds.




instrumentation as a grand

piano and I will keep this as I

feel it makes my piece seemmore professional.




communicate









I added chords into my piece

to match the melody. I


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struggled with this as I had

never added chords into

something before. The chords

I limited myself too where

C,A and F.




instrumentation as a grand

piano and I will keep this as I

feel it makes my piece seem

more professional.




communicate






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