Ultimate Composing Package

This Ultimate Composing Package is an entire scheme of work with all resources for 8 Lessons including:

• Composing Booklet
• Medium Term Plan covering every lesson in the booklet.
• Powerpoint linked to the Medium Term Plan and Booklet.
  **It has been designed, used and edited by a current Head of Music. **
  This package is designed to have everything you need to complete an entire unit of work with minimal hassle.

The sequence of lessons in this booklet are designed as follows:
Flexible starter pages at the beginning of the booklet
Lesson 1: Introduction to composing. Students are given 5 notes on the keyboard to create a melody from. They are encouraged to think of something to create their melody about, e.g. a place, animal or mood.
Lesson 2: Composing from a starting point. Students are given the first few notes of a melody and they have to continue and finish it.
Lesson 3: Composing using a rhythm. Students are given a rhythm for an entire melody. Using a specific scale, students are to make decisions on the pitches of the entire tune.
Lesson 4&5: Harmonising a tune. Students are given the tune of twinkle twinkle little star, and some chords. They will make musical decisions on harmonising the tune as a pair, then perform it.
Lesson 6: Where Chords go. Students study how only certain notes of a tune stand out and would have chords on them, just like how we emphasise certain syllables in a sentence. Students are then given a melody and are required to choose when the chords should be played, along with which chords would correctly harmonise with the tune.
Lesson 7&8: Assessment involving students composing their own melody and harmonising with chords, as a pair. the performance of this forms the assessment

Success criteria and assessment feedback pages at back of the booklet.
There are spaces for WWW/EBI feedback after lesson 4 and lesson 6.

The Medium Term Plan has a task by task breakdown of what needs to happen in each lesson, learning objectives for each lesson and other information about each lesson too.

The Powerpoint has all of the starter tasks (including links to youtube for any listening activities), instructions for students and some tips for the staff leading the sessions in the boxes below too.

NOTE: This project is also suitable for non-specialists, as there are videos for each lesson to for explanation and modelling for them. This may also help any specialist with how to deliver the content to students, if it is watched in advance.