Year 9

How can we fuse different musical styles and traditions?

Year 9

How can we fuse different musical styles and traditions?

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will continue developing and arranging our melodic, rhythmic and harmonic material and explore how they can be fused together.

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6 Questions

Q1.
How long is the piece you need to create?
Correct answer: 1 minute
2 minutes
3 minutes
Q2.
How many styles of music is the film company asking you to fuse for the travel documentary?
1
Correct answer: 2
5
Q3.
Which style of music includes this melodic feature?
An image in a quiz
Afro Celt Sound System
Bhangra
Correct answer: Electrotango
Q4.
Which fusion includes this harmonic feature?
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: Afro Celt Sound System
Afrobeat
Bhangra
Q5.
Which of these compositional techniques could be used to extend an idea?
Playing the same part in a different octave.
Remove some of the notes.
Correct answer: Repetition.
Q6.
What does tonal mean?
Correct answer: The parts/pitches fit with one another harmonically.
The piece is in a minor key.
The pitches create a clashing sound.

7 Questions

Q1.
What styles did Mia fuse to create the song "Borders"?
Correct answer: Electronic dance and Asian folk
Electrotango
Jazz and R&B
Q2.
How did Esperanza Spalding modernise jazz in her song "Black Gold"?
Horanawa instruments from Sri Lanka
Correct answer: R&B vocals with electric bass
Using music software
Q3.
In which style is this rhythm heard?
An image in a quiz
Afrobeat
Bhangra
Correct answer: Tango
Q4.
How does the chaal rhythm differ from other rhythms we have studied?
Correct answer: It is a dotted swung rhythm
It is a straight rhythm
It is made up of semiquavers
Q5.
What does monophonic mean?
Many different layers at the same time; countermelody.
Similar movement; melody and accompaniment.
Correct answer: Solo; in unison; call and response.
Q6.
What does polyphonic mean?
Correct answer: Many different layers at the same time; countermelody.
Similar movement; melody and accompaniment.
Solo; in unison; call and response.
Q7.
What does homophonic mean?
Many different layers at the same time; countermelody.
Correct answer: Similar movement; melody and accompaniment.
Solo; in unison; call and response.