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Minimalist composition

This unit develops understanding of minimalism, including the context of the style and the main musical features used in creating minimalist compositions. Pupils compose and improvise in a minimalist style, including rhythmic and melodic patterns.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

Prior knowledge

Pupils understand the minimum DAW functions for adding instruments and editing recorded sound
Pupils know the terms dynamics, texture and ostinato
Pupils will have composed short repeated patterns and music in fixed structures
Pupils know that successful music is a balance of unity and variety

Source curriculum references

Play and perform confidently in a range of solo and ensemble contexts using their voice, playing instruments musically, fluently and with accuracy and expression
Improvise and compose; and extend and develop musical ideas by drawing on a range of musical structures, styles, genres and traditions
Use staff and other relevant notations appropriately and accurately in a range of musical styles, genres and traditions
Identify and use the interrelated dimensions of music expressively and with increasing sophistication, including use of tonalities, different types of scales and other musical devices
Listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of music from great composers and musicians
Develop a deepening understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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