Communication

Using score to communicate musical

ideas
Ho might a composer communicate a musical idea?
 Success Criteria
• Performing: You can read from a lead sheet (single staff with
chords) and play the melody and chords of Beethoven’s Ode
to Joy.
• Composing: You can create a lead sheet of 8 bars with a
melody and chords in C major; it will be clear enough for
another person to read and perform your music.
• Listening: You can identify key musical elements in
• Extended criteria
• Performing: You can read more complex scores as provided in
the extended performing resources.
• Composing:
 The clefs
F Middle C G

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The treble clef: The bass clef: The alto clef: The tenor clef:
this tells us this tells us this tells us this tells us
where G is. where F is. where middle C is. where C is.
 How to find the notes on a keyboard
The treble clef (tells
us where the G is –
the second line up)

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Middle C
 Pitches
EGBDF –
Every Good
Boy FACE -
Deserves spaces
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Simple Time Note Tree
mak ow th es
kn nam .
h m s Semibreve
rhyt d value
an (4 beats)

Minims (2
beats each)

Crotchets
(1 beat
each)

Quavers
(1/2 beat
each)

Semiquavers
(1/4 beat
each)
Simple Time Note Tree
 Time Signature (tells
us there are 4
Rhythms
Dotted crotchet
crotchet beats in a
Bar lines = 1.5
bar) Minim = 2

Crotchet

Crotchet tied to a
Quavers, 0.5 crotchet = 2
beats each
note
bars
 ‘Ode to Joy’ Chords (C major)
Lines 1,2 & 4

Line 3
 ‘Ode to Joy’ Chords (C major)
C and G chords

C chord G chord
1 (C) 3 (E) 5 (G) 1 (G) 3 (B) 5 (D)
 ‘Ode to Joy’ Chords (C major)
E and Am chords

E chord (1st inversion) Am chord

3 (G#) 5 (B) 1 (E)
1 (A) 3 (C) 5 (E)
 ‘Ode to Joy’ Chords (C major)
Line 3: D and G chords

D chord (1st inversion) G chord

3 (F#) A (B) 1 (D)
1 (G) 3 (B) 5 (D)
 ‘Ode to Joy’ Chords (D major)
Lines 1,2 & 4

Line 3
 ‘Ode to Joy’ Chords (C major)
Line 3: D and A chords

D chord A chord (1st inversion)

1 (D) 3 (F#) 5 (A) 3(C#) 5(E) 1(A)
 F# and Bm chords

F# chord(1st inversion) Bm chord

3 (A#) 5 (C#) 1 (F#) 1 (B) 3 (D) 5 (F#)
 E and A chords

E chord (1st inversion) A chord

3(G#) 5(B) 1(E) 1(A) 3(C#) 5(E)
 Piano Chords

Am
Treble clef (tells us

Pitches
where the G is – the
second line up) G

G (lower
octave)
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play
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 n
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wor
Minor Variation

n
x t ensio
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wor
 n
x tensio r
E o
k! (f
wor ne
o
e r)
play
 n
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