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Mastering Intervals & Ornamentation in Composition | Unleash Your Musical Creativity

Learn to recognize, utilize, and compose intervals and ornaments with the help of this comprehensive guide. Enhance your musical skills through practical exercises and performances. Discover the magic of intervals in musical composition. Enhance your performance with ornamentation techniques such as trills, acciaccaturas, and pitch bends.

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Mastering Intervals & Ornamentation in Composition | Unleash Your Musical Creativity

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  1. Know: The Intervals AQA require you to aurally recognise and utilise. Understand: How intervals and ornamentation are use in composition Be able to: Compose and perform a selection of intervals and ornaments. *Make a point that we’ve already done Major and Minor.

  2. WHAT IS AN INTERVAL? The distance between 2 notes. The same thing as a tone or a semitone except you can move more than a tone… Use the virtual keyboard and start on C to show what intervals are. QUESTION: Why do you need to know Intervals?

  3. INTERVALS YOU NEED TO KNOW The good news is that in the listening exam you only have to know 4 intervals. So, when I was at school I came up with a way of figuring these intervals out when I heard them so that’s what we’re gonna do now!

  4. PERFORMANCE: Happy Birthday = Major 2nd Moderato C C D C F E C C D C G F C C A F E E D A# A# A F G F QUESTION: Where can you see / hear a major 2nd?

  5. PERFORMANCE: Here Comes the Bride = Perfect 4th G C F F C G E C F A A E F G F F C F E QUESTION: Where can you see / hear a perfect 4th?

  6. PERFORMANCE: Star wars theme = Perfect 5th G F E D G F E D G F E F D G G C C C QUESTION: Where can you see / hear a perfect 5th?

  7. PERFORMANCE: Somewhere over the rainbow = Octave C C B G A B C C A G E F B C D E F D C C D E C QUESTION: Where can you see / hear an Octave?

  8. Ornamentation C D C D C D C D C D C D C D C D C D C D Rapid movement back & forth between the note. TRILL = TASK: Perform above then Add a trill on the end of happy birthday Sometimes called a grace note, it’s a very quick note played before the main one. ACCIACCATURA TASK: Perform an Acciaccatura before the first 4 notes of Somewhere over the Rainbow. String instruments can bend the strings to increase the pitch. PITCH BEND TASK: Add pitch bend to here comes the bride. Instead of playing G bend up from an F.

  9. TASK: Clap this rhythm TASK: Add pitch to the rhythm. You may only use a Major 2nd, perfect 4th, Perfect 5th and an Octave. TASK: Perform it!

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