Scottish Music Composing

Lesson 12 Name these notes:

The Pentatonic Scale The PENTATONIC SCALE has five notes – in the same way as a PENTAGON has five sides, and a PENTATHLON has five events. The PENTATONIC SCALE is used in lots of Scottish melodies.

Notes for the Pentatonic Scale D E G A Auld Lang Syne was written using the Pentatonic Scale

Task You are going to compose your own piece of Scottish Music This will be in the style of a Scottish Waltz You will write for up to 3 different parts Once complete you may have the chance to input your composition to sibelius!

Scottish Dances There are lots of different types of Scottish Dances; You are going to compose a Waltz! Think carefully, can you name any? Reel March Waltz

What Is The Difference? The difference between a Waltz and a Reel is: A Waltz has 3 beats in the bar and sounds slow and stately A Reel has 4 beats in the bar and sounds fast and lively

Let’s learn this Waltz rhythm Time Signature Let’s learn this Waltz rhythm

Time To Practise First of all put your right hand thumb on Middle C Then practise playing the scale ASCENDING Now practise playing the scale DESCENDING Listen carefully to how it sounds

Let’s Compose! Revise the rhythm of the Waltz – make sure you can clap it On your keyboard, experiment playing the notes of the pentatonic scale in time with the rhythm you have chosen You can play the notes in any order and you can repeat notes – just listen until you play something that you like When you have decided on something that you like, write it down! Your teacher will help you with this!

Lesson 13 Add time signatures to the following 3 passages and write the letter names underneath:

Lesson 14 Can you tell if the following passages are ASCENDING or DESCENDING?

Lesson 15 Can you tell if the following passages are moving by STEP or by LEAP?

Lesson 16 Complete the evaluation at the back of your workbook.