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This unit develops pupils’ understanding of polyrhythmic music and contemporary minimalist styles exploring how different polyrhythmic textures and musical conventions are used by minimalist composers including the use of repetitive and changing rhythmic and melodic motifs in different styles of minimalist music. The main focus of this unit is rhythm: cyclic rhythm, polyrhythm and moving in/out of phase and also looks at structure including cyclic structure and motivic transformation. Pupils explore a range of minimalist music including “Clapping Music”, “Tubular Bells” and “Oxygene (Part IV)”. Element Focus - Rhythm, Pitch, Texture, Structure & Form |
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Year 9 Unit 4 - Minimalism |
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Exploring motifs, polyrhythms and repetition |
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Oxygene Melody Part |
Oxygene Chords Part 1 |
Oxygene Chords Part 2 |
Oxygene Bass Line |
Oxygene All Parts |
Oxygene (Part IV) |
In C |
In C - Terry Riley |
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Clapping Music
Rhythm Grid |
Tubular Bells |
Tubular Bells Melody Part |
Tubular Bells Harmony Part |
Tubular Bells Chords Part |
Tubular Bells Bass Line |
Tubular Bells All Parts |
Tubular Bells |
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Minimalist Art |
A Minimalism Puzzle |
Tubular Bells (Uses Audio 7) |
My Minimalism Learning |
Six Marimbas |
Pendulum Music |
Example of a pupil minimalist piece using ICT |
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Minimalism - Information and Composers |
All About Steve Reich |
Minimalism Word Puzzles |
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Minimalism & Listening to Clapping Music
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Listening to Minimalist Dance Music
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Composing Clapping Music
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Composing Clapping Music
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Assessing Clapping Music |
Tubular Bells Self Assessment |
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Composing Minimalist Music |
Listening to Minimalist Music
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Listening to The Desert Music
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Assessing Minimalist Compositions |
Clapping Music Animation |
Different Trains |
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Scheme of Work |
Lesson Plan (PDF) |
Lesson Plan (DOC) |
Lesson Bundles (ZIP) Download all the resources you need for each lesson (excluding video files) in a ZIP file. |
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Lesson 1 Exploring Minimalist Music & Rhythmic Motifs |
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Lesson 2 Exploring the Effects of Minimalist Rhythmic Phase Shifts |
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Lesson 3 Exploring Minimalist Melodic Motifs |
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Lesson 4 Exploring Minimalist Devices - Repetition, Looping, Phase In & Phase Out |
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Lesson 5 Composing a Minimalist piece using Melodic Motifs & Minimalist Devices |
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Lesson 6 Exploring the influences of Minimalism on Dance & Electronic Music |
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Additive Patterns Kindly submitted by a subscriber, this presentation takes pupils through the process of using Additive Rhythms as a basis for a Minimalist composition. Works well with Sibelius ® |
Phase Shifting Kindly submitted by a subscriber, this presentation takes pupils through the process of using Phase Shifting as a basis for a Minimalist composition. Works well with Sibelius ® |