National Standards Addressed:

4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.

6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Equipment needed: Computer, Internet, GarageBand Software, Powerpoint software

Assignment Objectives:
1. Students will be able to search the internet to find an appropriate artwork to
inspire a music composition or select an appropriate image from their own collection
2. Students will use GarageBand to create a piece of music
3. Students will embed the audio file and the picture file into GoogleSlide so it can
be prepared for the class
4. Students will combine vocabulary from visual art and music to analyze and
describe the relationship between both pieces and the composition process in a written
document - This is your course blog
5. Students will play the composition for the class

Assignment description:

1. Locate source for inspirational artwork (museums, galleries) - MAKE IT

INTERESTING
2. Save the image to your class folder
3. Make a list of descriptors of the artwork - Keep that in your course blog
4. Compose a 2-3 minute piece with GarageBand
5. The piece should meet the following criteria:
1. Form (Strophic AAA, Binary AB, Ternary ABA, or Rondo ABACABA)
2. Musical Sensibility - It makes musical sense, Phrases are 8 bars long,
there is a tag at each phrase, and you end on the tonic
3. Texture - at least 6 instrument tracks including: bass line, percussion
instrument (e.g., shaker), melodic line, and some electronic beat.
(Backbone)
4. Timber - The instruments work together in a harmonious fashion
5. Pitch - There should be pitch differences
6. Rhythm - Find rhythmic ideas that help keep your listener (and you)
interested in the song.
7. One of the loops should be modified somehow (transposed, changed
dynamically, etc.)
8. There should be appropriate SFX
 9. Make it your own, make it creative, have fun, give yourself time and you
will make multiple edits and changes.
10. I want you to show me that you have addressed all of the school SLRs.
2. After composition is complete in GarageBand, be sure to go to the SHARE pull
down menu
1. Select export song to disk
2. This will save your song as a single file onto your computer
3. THIS IS THE FILE YOU WILL NEED TO USE TO SUBMIT
3. Open up Google Slides, add your picture and your song to the slide.
1. Before submitting your slide (with audio file), practice opening it up. When
the slide is opened, your song should automatically begin playing
4. Submit a link from your GoogleSlide to our Moodle Class
5. Continue to keep a quality Blog

For the final Reflection, using complete sentences.

1. Describe how you found the picture
2. Describe what initially captured your attention to the picture
3. Describe new ways of interpreting the picture beyond the initial picture and
how can you represent that musically.