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Song writing
During my PGCE I wrote and devised a unit of
work for year 9 students to help them with song writing. Since then I
have discovered that pupils of this age find this difficult. For this
reason I now teach song writing in year 10 with my GCSE candidates.
You may find various chapters of my essay of interest. Feel free to
use these ideas. I continually add resources and change ways I teach
topics and so additional worksheets can also be tested. If you have
any comments or wish to share ideas/resources about this topic please
contact me.
Song Writing Essay  :
Worksheets written for KS3
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Song
grid
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A song grid sheet to write
your ideas down on. |
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Listening
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A listening worksheet to
help you identify chords and rhythms in Prelude and Variation,
Lalliet and general music questions for Being for the Benefit of Mr
Kite, John Lennon and Paul McCartny. |
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Composing
your chorus
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A listening worksheet to
help you discover what makes an effective chorus. Uses the music
Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz, however any song could be used. |
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Composing
your chorus
5kb
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Hints and ideas about how
to go about composing your chorus. |
More recent additions for KS4
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Form
and Design
27kb
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A worksheet discussing form and design
with question. Intended to help you with your composition
work. |
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Ich
Grolle Nicht
11kb
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An exemplar answer of the way you should be
thinking when listening to music. An analysis of this piece.
Remember that using graphic scores to show pitch or dynamics is acceptable
in the exam. You just need to learn to get your ideas across in an
understandable way! (We will be listening to this in class.) |
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Composing
your own song
39kb
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A step by step guide to
help you compose your own song. It also includes idea about
how to develop your song. |
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Songwriting
96kb
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Tips for composing your
song with information about cadences and how to make your tunes
grow. |
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© 2000, L. Shannon,
www.MusicatSchool.co.uk
Any teacher or student of music may reproduce the schemes of
work and worksheets in print, without electronic reformatting,
providing that each resource copied has the copyright notice
attached. The material may not be placed on any other
server without permission. |
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Last updated 07 February 2001
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