Fanfare 1 Year 10 Composition

To understand the idea of a fanfare and how they are written Learning Objectives To spend some time completing our minimalism compositions and submitting them To understand the idea of a fanfare and how they are written To be able to write down a rhythm

Minimalism Checklist 15 minutes Essential Does your composition have: Layered texture Use of rhythmic displacement Note addition A contrasting section A satisfactory ending Desirable Does your composition use at least two of the following: Augmentation Diminution Retrograde Inversion Resultant melody Would be nice Bass part Key changes Dynamics 15 minutes

Two Famous Fanfares Timbre (different types of sounds) Development of musical material

Features of Fantastic Fanfares Build-up Trumpets Antiphony

Improvise a fanfare Short or long sounds No overlapping Choose short or long based on what you have heard before Patterns? Changes of pace? Sections?

Writing Down Rhythms Count the beats out loud What happens on each beat? Example: Questions Time 1 2 3 4 • • • 1 2 3 4

More Rhythms

Practice http://www.emusictheory.com/practice/rhythmDict.html#.VOzUjPmsV8F Once you get good at it, try to write out a rhythm for the first section of a fanfare In two parts with antiphony! Bring it next time (do it on paper)