MELODY AND LEITMOTIF AS Composition OBJECTIVES To understand the terms programme music and impressionism in music To understand what a leitmotif is and.

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MELODY AND LEITMOTIF AS Composition

OBJECTIVES To understand the terms programme music and impressionism in music To understand what a leitmotif is and how to use one To think about instrumentation and how to change the character of a melody

PROGRAMME MUSIC Music that tells a story without words Popular from Romantic period onwards Famous examples include Saint-Saëns Danse macabre Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Beethoven 6 th Symphony (Pastoral) Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

IMPRESSIONISM Music that creates a general impression of something abstract Not describing a narrative

YOUR COMPOSITION Likely to have both programmatic and impressionist aspects Needs to be unified by some sort of theme Theme itself doesn’t need to be programmatic in itself Needs to be instantly recognisable

LEITMOTIFS Tunes which represent people, objects or emotions What aspects of a river’s journey could you write leitmotifs for?

MR TAO’S RIVER LEITMOTIFS

TASK Dress up one of my river motifs with other instruments Choose chords Instruments? Textures and effects?

PREP Write a leitmotif 4 bars long Orchestrate it for up to 5 instruments in two different ways End the first one with an interrupted cadence Write a 4-bar link passage to join them up