On Wednesday 13th July, students taking music as a minor subject explored impressionism. We looked at the parrallels between impressionism in art and music, and developed our analytical skills by listening to several pieces by Claude Debussy. In the second half of the lesson students worked in groups to come up with their own impressionism compositions:
'Storm' was the title for Group 1. However, the group decided to create an impression of the calmness before the storm, a loud storm with thunder and lightening, before returning back to peacefulness. This piece was composed and performed by Juan Escudero Leon, Isabel Fernandez Garcia, Maria Jesus Garcia Rodriguez, Dimitrina Ovcharova and Maddy Portwain.
Group 2 created an impression of a forest at night. The low pitched sound on the keyboard was included to symbolise darkness, with the other instruments creating impressions of animals (for example, birds are represented by the glockenspiel). The students decided that the piece should get gradually faster as rain begins to fall and animals begin to run and scurry around, before the atmosphere calms down once again. 'Forest' was composed and performed by Cristina Boto Garcia, Isaline D'arbaumond, Roman Glukhov, Ksenia Letunovskaya, Carla Lobeto Llorca and Jamie Taylor.
In such a short time (30 minutes), these two groups have worked extremely hard to come up with such creative impressions of their chosen title, and I was pleased that everyone made a good contribution to the final outcome - well done!
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