GCSE composition: introducing students to harmony and phrase structure Shakespeare Students will look at skills

Students will look at skills such as choral voice

but a technical expertise is needed to deconstruct the meaning of the semiotics of the text on stage

which may include physical and psychological dependency

I’m not excluding Libyan folk music as well while I’m here

Creating ‘happenings’

GCSE composition: introducing students to harmony and phrase structure Shakespeare Students will look at skillsOne of the many new challenges facing students when they begin GCSE music is that of composing a complete piece of music by themselves. Previous experience, such as group improvisations or experimenting with loops using a sequencer, should already have introduced them to creating and manipulating musical ideas, but the jump from this type of activity to formal composition, which demands the creation of more refined musical material that can be