Body Music, Music Composition Lesson Plan

Students will compose a piece of “body music*” (Keith Terry, Crosspulse). They will name their compositions, and practice and perform the composition with an optional additional accompaniment (self-composed or backtrack). Templates, graphic organizers, composition plan included.
Objectives
Within 2-4 lessons, students will compose a piece of music inspired by body percussion. In the process the student will:
• Acquire knowledge of the basic formal structure of a composition
• Learn and memorize through practice to write a rhythmic motif
• Learn, review and practice basic compositional techniques such as repetition and/or fragmentation
• Practice short rhythmic fragments
• Explore basic techniques of extending a composition
• Acquire, review or practice basic rhythm notation
• Acquire, review or practice concepts of meter, time signature, beat, pulse and rhythm.