We then discussed what makes a good piece of music? In smaller groups we came up with lots of different ideas to make an assessment criteria; meaningful, memorable, varied pitch (accuracy), harmonies to build texture, technique - quality, rich in instruments/found sounds, experimental, have a journey, vary in fundamental elements, prioritsing sounds, engaging, imaginative, have a strong bass line, blending timbre, have a sense of direction, energy and a range of dynamics.
We decided on the most important and made a top five; A journey/story/context, variation, technique/talent, energy, harmony/texture.
The history of rhythm tells us that music evolved at the same time as verbal communication and that rhythm was used as a form of long range communication by using drums, cow bells, horns etc...
The rhythm of the sounds then determined what was being communicated e.g Morse Code.
Further into the lesson we had a look at different kinds of drumming from around the world and discussed what they originated from and what was the reason for doing so.
For next week's lesson we have created our own piece using just rhythm!
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