PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT:
MUSIC
COMPOSITION TASK SHEET
YEAR 11/12
UNIT: Jazz Music /
Name: / Draft: / Final:
Context
Over the past five weeks we have examined Jazz Music and its unique sound and structure.
Task
Using your knowledge of the various Jazz genres, you are to arrange a piece to a specific Jazz style. Your arrangement must clearly demonstrate your understanding of a particular Jazz Style by the manipulation and careful consideration of musical elements.
Assessment Conditions:
o The arrangement must be presented as a written score and/or as recorded sound
o Your arrangement must follow correct transposing techniques (if required)
o Students must complete preparatory activities and submit them for critique as part of the drafting process.
o Draft will be due 2 weeks prior to final submission
o Year 11- minimum of 16 bars in length or approximately 30 seconds
o Year 12- minimum of 32 bars in length or approximately 60 seconds
Criterion
Standard A
/ Standard B / Standard C / Standard D / Standard EThe student:
Skillfully manipulates musical elements and compositional devices to create cohesive music that is within a context, relates to genre, and effectively and convincingly expresses style. / The student:
Manipulates musical elements and compositional devices to create mostly cohesive music that is within a context, relates to genre, and effectively expresses style. / The student:
Combines musical elements and compositional devices to create partially cohesive music that is within a context and shows evidence of genre and style. / The student:
Uses musical elements within a context and may demonstrate some aspects of genre and/or style. / The student:
Uses some musical elements within a context.
Standard awarded
Comments:
TRANSPOSING TIPS AND HELP
Steps1
Understand that the C note on the trumpet or any other BЬ instrument (such as the BЬ clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax, or soprano sax) sounds like the BЬ below it on a C instrument (such as the piano).
Learn that transposing from C to BЬ requires moving the note up a whole step. 3
Using the table below, transpose the notes. Find the note you are starting with in the C column, then go directly across to see what it is pitched in B flat. Or vice versa, if you are going from Bb to C. 1
Then to play it in the correct key, you need to add two sharps. So if you are in C major (for a trumpet), you would go to D major by adding two sharps to the key signature. If you are in B flat major, you would still add two sharps, and the sharps would cancel out the flats, so you would end with a blank key signature (C major). In this case going from a B-flat instrument to read a C instrument or piano music, this makes it easy to transpose on the fly for easier songs without having to rewrite the score.
C / B FlatF# / GЬ / G# / AЬ
G / A
G# / AЬ / A# / BЬ
A / B / CЬ
A# / BЬ / B# / C
B / CЬ / C# / DЬ
B# / C / D
C# / DЬ / D# / EЬ
D / E / FЬ
D# / EЬ / E# / F
E / FЬ / F# / GЬ
E# / F / G