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
Activities are in a box with a green tick
Read these carefully.
Sometimes you will need to submit something to Teams, sometimes not.
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
On your piece of paper, draw this table:
Clip number
Matching Picture
1
2
3
4
5
Look at the pictures A, B, C, D and E.
Listen to the music clips below. They will download when you click the orange words.
Can you match each clip with a picture? Write your answer in the table.
Click on the Answers tab underneath this to see the Answers and mark your work.
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E
C
D
B
A
3. How do composers do this?
Let's think about the musical elements and how composers can use them.
Read the table below carefully. We will need to use these when we do our own composing.
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
Listen to the Batman music again.
Think about the musical elements you have just read. What musical elements are used in this piece of music to make it sound like a Batman film?
For example: the pitch starts low. The tempo is slow.
What other musical elements can you hear?
5. Match the musical elements
Copy the two lists in this picture. Draw them next to each other.
Listen to the music file below.
Draw a line between every clip and the right description.
Click on the Answers tab below to see the Answers and mark your work!
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E
F
D
G
C
J
B
I
A
H
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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