Medley Mania Music Composition Lesson Plan

This lesson is aimed at the more advanced general music class or the piano studio.
Music Composition Intermediate
2 - 4 lessons
Students will arrange/compose a piece of music based on medley techniques: link together well-known melodies following a step- by-step guide to compose a medley.
Within 2-4 lessons students will prepare a medley. In the process the student will:
• Acquire knowledge of the different ways in which pieces may be linked.
• Analyze the various parameters that should be considered to comfortably link different pieces, e.g., metre, key, rhythm,
melody, etc.
• Plan the structure of a composition.
• Focus on the interplay between recognizable melodic material and linking material.
• Learn, review and practice basic compositional techniques such as repetition, sequence and/or ornamentation to compose
links.
• Explore basic techniques of extending a composition.
• Acquire, review or practice melodic and rhythmic staff notation.
Included: 6 step guide handout for students, Merry Medley sample composition and audio file