Final Performance

Today we did our final performances of our sounds pieces to finish our art a music unit. The students practiced audience behavior by sitting quietly and listening to other groups' performances, and showing appreciation by clapping at the end. We varied the performance using tempo and dynamics to make it more expressive. The groups were charged with watching the conductor for these expressive changes. The art assigned to each group became the musical "score," as the students "read" the art. The art told them when to make what kinds of sounds, based on the creative and compositional choices the students had previously made. We used art to influence our creation and composition, just as many famous musical composers have. Art and music both make us feel something and these art forms help us express what we feel.