What is it?
Students are to form groups of 3 to 5 and choose a fairytale that I provide.
It can be anything from the Three Little Pigs to, in this case, The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Then, using everything from class percussion, keyboards, guitars, Garageband or Sibelius/Finale, the students are to:
Steps:
1. Choose which main characters/ideas in the story need a theme
2. Describe the SOUND of each theme in words, using the Concepts of Music
3. Once the descriptions have been finalised they move onto experimenting with sounds and melodies
4. Students notate draft copies of their themes onto manuscript
5. Students present the Fairytale via narration and play each theme as the character/idea appears in the story.
I have attached here my Fairytale Composition Task in PDF format
What I am very excited about is the work of one of my students, who, using Finale Notepad, created some outstanding themes with the help of his group. I have ‘cleaned up’ his MIDI files and presented them below in SIBELIUS format.
Click on this link to see the students’ themes for the “Emperor’s New Clothes”
* Make sure you have the Scorch plug-in installed
Those themes to the Emperors New Clothes is some of the best music I have ever heard.
I am glad you enjoyed it. JT did an excellent job using Finale Notepad to come up with the melodic material and write out the parts. It is a great asset having music notation software that can play back your creations.
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