AR Classroom
Program Overview
● Overview about Cryptology in Music
● Methods of Cryptology in Music (German, French, Honegger, Morse Code, Number System)
● Creating Codes to crack
● Listening Tasks for each method
● Create an encrypted song using one of the above methods
● Build an AR experience to showcase student encrypted song and session content
● The Facts about Whales and their songs
● Listening task & Graphic Notation creation
● Analysis of Whalesong excerpt and apply graphic Notation
● Musical Form: Repetition, Contrast, Variation
● Musical Form: Binary, Ternary, Rondo
● Create a Whale Song: components including Graphic/ traditional notation, Song Structure, and Form
● Build an AR experience to showcase student Whale Song and session content
● The Orchestra and Instrument Families
● Instrument features, specifications, and sound source/production
● Instruments and their range
● Concept based listening task & describing sound (TIMBRE)
● Concept based listening task – Musical Soundscapes
● Matching an instrument to an animal/character and vice versa
● Creating an animal soundscape in DAW software
● Build a Mastermind-style AR experience to showcase students knowledge of instruments and composition
● Book musicals and their characteristics
● Common character archetypes found in musicals
● Identifying and analysing the musical characteristics and musical concepts of an ‘I Want’ Song
○ Avoiding the tonic
○ Scale Degrees & Major Scales
○ Melodic Repetition (Unity & Contrast)
● Identifying and analysing the characteristics and musical concepts of a Comedy Song
○ Rhythmic & Melodic Repetition
○ Syncopation
● Composing either an ‘I Want’ Song or Comedy song, learning compositional practices such as-
○ Lyric writing (original or provided)
○ Scansion (setting lyrics to rhythm)
○ Melody writing
○ Chordal accompaniment
○ Implementing relevant musical concepts
● Build an AR experience to showcase the students’ song/s and session content and/or create a virtual program for a school event or musical