1. Fanfare 1
Year 10 Composition

2. 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

3. 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

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

7. Features of Fantastic Fanfares
Build-up
Trumpets
Antiphony

8. 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?

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

10. More Rhythms

11. Practice
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)