Be Original: Composing for Classes
Price: £49.99 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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Subject: Music
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 14 - 16
Order Number: 11033
This is an absolute treasure trove of information and worksheets for teachers who may be struggling to offer something interesting to their classes in this area of the curriculum. A resource, which will help with the entire syllabus in composition, it is particularly useful with 12-15 years olds, working at around key stages 2-3, and will provide an on going series of projects for group and/or individual work.
The resource gives teaching advice and worksheets on The Blues, ragtime other styles of jazz and Latin, pentatonic scales, gapped scales and modes, harmony, working with chords, variation etc.
The section on help for composers offers a set of information sheets, which deal with many styles of composition, and also offers a chord bank and other necessary information. Worksheets may be prepared as class sets, or used with individual students. They may also give starter ideas, which could be taken up and further refined to suit a particular teaching situation. Be Original: Composing for Classes also tackle the sometimes-difficult matter of assessing pupils' finished compositions. A paper is given, in which the principles of music assessment are clearly laid out, and the criteria for the different learning outcomes are clearly stated. Helpful box grid assessment worksheets, which are ready for, use by teacher and student.
