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Creating and designing
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• Invent music individually
and in groups, displaying imagination and initiative and
using knowledge of sound and structures gained through investigations
and explorations;
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Pupils should explore further the concepts
linked with their performing and listening tasks, using
them imaginatively in their own inventions. The range of
compositional techniques being developed should be broad
and include practical approaches to composing, including
improvising and arranging.
A starting point might be a piece which the pupil is currently
performing on his or her ‘best’ instrument or
voice, where the compositional techniques are identified
through performing and listening. Pupils can then plan and
structure their own compositions using these tools and devices
within a similar or new context.
More complex compositions may be built up by pupils with
the possible use of sound recording facilities such as an
‘audio notepad’ to help pupils build, edit and
store their ideas in a practical and musical way. Where
possible, use should be made of ‘layering’ tracks
on multi-track recorders and computers.
Where possible pupils should be given the opportunity to
combine voice, acoustic and electronic instruments in their
own compositions.
Pupils may use suitable notation by learning to produce
and edit performance plans, diagrams or scores of their
inventions using appropriate media, including computer software
where this is available and relevant to the creative process.
However, the need to notate should not be placed in the
way of the practical approach to creating and designing.
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• invent music which uses more
complex musical devices and stimuli, shows imagination,
some awareness of structure, and incorporates instruments
which the pupil is learning to play;
• lead others in playing inventions.
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• make practical use of the
concepts related to performing and listening activities
to devise inventions, which show good structural planning
and employ the skills and techniques which pupils are acquiring
on an instrument or voice;
• combine various musical elements with acoustic
and electronic sources in producing new inventions;
• where possible use technology, e.g. audio/video
recordings, computer software, multi-track recorders,
as a means of recording and refining inventions;
• represent inventions in a variety of ways,
including appropriate notation which can be read and used
by others.
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