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Machine Music from Musical Contexts provides a range of fun and exciting
music activities and learning opportunities combining singing, performing,
composing and listening and appraising with all of the resources you’ll need
in one place! Ideal for non-specialist music teachers (with a wealth of
supporting media files to model tasks and a detailed scheme of work and
lesson plans) and a wealth of fresh inspiration for music specialists.
This unit has cross-curricular links with a number of popular primary topics
including machines,
engines, trains and transport, factories, space, clocks, electronics and video games. This unit takes the starting
point of machines as the basis for an exploration into graphic scores and
repeating cyclic patterns. Pupils begin exploring the sounds created by
steam engines and trains, listening to “train-inspired” pieces and exploring
how short, repeated vocal and rhythmic and melodic patterns are used to
describe the perpetual motion of a trains’ movement. Pupils them move
onto explore the cyclic sounds created by factory machines using a selection
of vocal and body sounds to recreate cyclic sound patterns. After a
brief exploration into space machine sounds, where pupils’ learning on
graphic scores are developed, the unit ends with an exploration into video
game sounds where pupils create their own sound effects (a good ICT
opportunity) for a video game, recording their ideas using graphic notation. |
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“Machine Music” Composing Sheet |
Worksheet 2 - Video Game Listening Sheet (uses Audio 2 & 3) |
Listening to “The Viennese Musical Clock” (uses Audio 8) |
Listening to “The Little Train of the Caipira” (uses Audios 17 & 18) |
Composing “Video Game” Sound Effects |
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“Short Ride in a Fast Machine” (John Adams) (Audio on Audio 15) |
“Pacific 231” - (Honegger) (Audio on Audio 16) |
“The Iron Foundry” - (Mosolov) (Audio on Audio 9) |
Honda Civic Choir TV Advert (Audio on Audio 12) |
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The Typewriter Song (Leroy Anderson) (Audio on Audio 11) |
Steam Machine Music |
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Scheme of
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Lesson Plan
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Lesson Plan
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Lesson 1 Exploring Steam Engine & Train Sounds |
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Lesson 2 Exploring Cyclic Train Patterns |
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Lesson 3 Exploring Factory Machine Sounds |
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Lesson 4 Exploring Space Machine Sounds |
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Lesson 5 Exploring Video Game Sound Effects |
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Lesson 6 Exploring Video Game Sound Effects |
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Graphic Score Cards |
Graphic Flaschcards |
Steam Train Sound Effects |
Machines (Back to Humans) (Queen) |
Factory Steam Engine Sounds |
Clapping Music (Steve Reich) |
Music for Pieces of Wood (Steve Reich) |
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Graphic
Scores |
Body
Percussion & Vocal Sounds |
Video
Game Sound Effects (uses Audio 23) |
My
Machine Music Learning |
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(uses Audio 4 & 5) |
Song Sheet 1 - Driving in my Car (Song example on Audio 10 & song
melody on MIDI 1) |
Train Departure Vocal Graphic Score |
Score 3 - Train Departure Vocal Rhythms MIDI 2 - Part 1; MIDI 3—Part 2; MIDI 4 - Part 3 MIDI 5 - Part 4; MIDI 6 - All 4 parts together |
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(Audio example on Audio 19) MIDI 7 - Part 1; MIDI 8 - Part 2 MIDI 9 - Parts 1 & 2 together |
Song Sheet 2 - Chattanooga Choo Choo Vocal Song Example on Audio 20 Instrumental Example on Audio 21 Song Melody on MIDI 10 |
Song
Sheet 3 - Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines Song Example on Audio 22; Song Melody on MIDI 11 |