Fourth Form Composition Setting Words to Music Fourth Form Composition
Learning Objectives To understand the concept of strong and weak beats and know where they are in common time signatures To be able to identify stresses in poetry To be able to write a rhythm for a text To begin to write a melody to fit a text
Stresses Which are the strong syllables in this passage? Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees. Walter de la Mare Silver
Strong and Weak beats
What is wrong with this setting?
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QUICK revision What is a cadence? Name the four types Which chords make a perfect cadence? Imperfect? Interrupted? In C major which notes are in Chord I? Chord V? What cadence is implied here?
Task Use one of the given openings to write a MELODY for the text. Complete the rhythm Start your melody on the tonic Finish for prep! Upbeat (posh term: anacrucis)