Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will warm-up our bodies and voices with a song called 'Shabuya!'. We will explore Holst's 'Mars: Bringer of War' from The Planets Suite and discover why his music for this movement really did sound so ominous and menacing. We will then learn some of the ostinato patterns from this movement followed by doing some composition of our own.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What was the name of our warm-up song?
Not so fast!
Correct answer: Not so simple!
Not so steady!
Q2.
What do we call musical metre in which beats can be simply halved or quartered?
Compound time
Dinner time
Correct answer: Simple time
Q3.
Which of these tracks is not in simple time?
Correct answer: Alicia Keys - Fallin'
Happy - Pharrell Williams
I will wait - Mumford and Sons
Q4.
Which of these time signatures is not compound time
12/8
Correct answer: 4/4
6/8
Q5.
What is compound time?
Correct answer: musical metre in which each beat can be split into three equal units
musical metre in which each beat can be split into two equal units
time to eat dinner

5 Questions

Q1.
What activity did the lesson begin with?
Composing
Correct answer: Don't clap this one back
Not so simple!
Q2.
What is the pulse?
Correct answer: The heartbeat of the music
The length of the music
The speed of the music
Q3.
How could you describe the metre of Mars: Bringer of War?
Common time
Compound
Correct answer: Irregular
Q4.
Who wrote The Planets suite?
Beethoven
Correct answer: Holst
Mozart
Q5.
How could you best describe the feeling of irregular metre?
Even
Correct answer: Lopsided
Usual

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UnitMusic / Metre