It is expected that students will create, listen to, and perform music, demonstrating understanding of expressive and physical properties of melody . Students improvise variations of a known melody.
Students create a melody for a poem.
Practise using computer technology to execute similar transformations. Analyse melodies for patterns and describe how the patterns affect expressive phrasing. To demonstrate expressive phrasing, students perform a phrase of music using melodic patterns in the phrase. Ask what characteristics of melody are most commonly used for the type of work they do. Students use their journals to record what they have learned and how they will apply this information to their own compositions.