For the past couple of weeks we have been doing a project from the BBC called Ten Pieces. We have been learning about it with P3/4 as well. It is all about classical music and their composers, plus we have to make our own body percussion to the songs and our own art. The three main songs are: Night on Bare Mountain, In The Hall Of The Mountain King and Mars, The Destroyer. When you do music you have to think about all the different techniques which are; Ostinato, Crescendo, Diminuendo, Surprises, solos, when they play altogether, call and answer, layers, gaps of silence and change of tempo and speed. We also were in groups of four to create our own piece of music using our voices and body percussion which we recorded and built up using Garageband. Our group had to make a piece that sounded happy and we used lots of different techniques. In pairs we all researched a song and their composer. We researched Firebird by Igor Stravinsky. Lots of other people researched famous composers too like Mozart and Beethoven. We really enjoy doing 10 Pieces because it lets us find out about classical music, composers and get the feel from different music.
By Emily and Eleanor 🙂
Last week our class p7 entered a competition about photography and architecture run by the Scottish Civil trust. We went a walk round the village looking for photographs to take. There were all kinds of photos like roof tops, paths & drain pipes and they were taken at different angels to make them look eye catching. When we got back from the walk round the village we looked though all of our photo’s and picked out the best photo and edited it a wee bit to make it look better. Then they could enter it in to the competition.
