Film Music Lesson 1

You will need

  • Piece of paper

  • Pen or pencil 📝

  • A way to listen to the music ♫ Headphones would be useful. 🎧

Plan for today

In this page, there are...

  • My words to read

  • Sound files to listen to

  • Videos to watch and to listen to

  • Activities to try

1. What is the plan for this term?

This term we will be...

  • Thinking about how composers use musical elements and musical devices to create effects

  • Listening to some famous film music

  • Performing some famous film music!

  • Creating our own soundtrack

2. Let's hear some film music

Clip number

Matching Picture

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Click here to listen to the music clips
Match these pictures to the music above.

3. How do composers do this?

Let's think about the musical elements and how composers can use them.

Musical Element

What it means.

Melody

The tune. How the notes move, e.g. skip, step or leap

Articulation

The way something is played, e.g. pluck

Dynamics

Loud and quiet

Tonality

Major and minor. We did this in our keyboard lessons and we will revisit these words.

Structure

The sections of music

Harmony

How notes are combined together.

Instruments

Recognising which instruments are playing.

Rhythm and tempo

Tempo = the speed

Texture

The layers of music

Sonority

How something sounds, e.g. harsh or bright.

4. Batman

Batman Theme

5. Match the musical elements

Musical clips

6. You're finished!

That's the end of the activities for this week.

Now we know about some techniques that we can use in our own pieces.

7. Extension (optional)

If you've done everything and you still have some time left over, why not listen to some more film music?

Here are some of my favourites:

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