This series encourages composition work with skill-based activities and projects for Key Stage 3 pupils, focusing on integrating composing with performing, listening and appraising. The pupil book contains composition projects, from poetry to stories and pictures, with suggested frameworks.

 

This book is part of a book series called Composing Matters .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Pearson Education Limited .

This book has the following chapters: IntroductionProjects 1-25: Rhythm (1 & 2); Pentatonic melody writing; Dorian melody; The Tribe; Pitched ostinato; Moods and feelings; Messages and music; The soldier's tale; Graphic soundscapes; Winter Weather; Music and media (1 & 2); Words and music; Pictures at an exhibition; Telling the story; Composing with chords; Melody over chords (1 & 2); Drones (1 & 2); Twelve-bar blues; Pop song; Five-finger studies; Music for film
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