Music Reflection p 1

Last lesson we had to watch a scene from the King Kong movie and evaluate on the different elements heard, example; instruments, crescendo or decrescendo, tempo, pitch etc. (We also learned the meaning of crescendo and decrescendo in class during this project, crescendo means; and decrescendo means the opposite). Once we evaluated quietly in our heads, we had to inform each-other the different sounds, noises, why they happened at that specific moment and what caused the adrenalin to occur using only music. Once we discussed our ideas and thoughts we then continued on to reenacting this musical piece by using instruments we found, (usually in pairs for each instrument), and we had to (everyone) decide when was the best point, or most dramatic point to start playing, with the help of Mr. Marie we were able to complete it, but not perfectly. We started out by playing the very high and quiet instruments in sync and then continued on to adding more louder and anticipating instruments towards the climax which ended in all of us slowly lowering the sound of the loudest to the lowest instrument until we could no longer hear. We could have improved by having some instruments go higher and lower depending on the part of the scene, as well as we should have ended more smoothly as there were a lot of people that didn’t know how to end the piece. Although i believe we did really well because only having such little practice we were able to grasp the concept and make it into our own creation. Once we got the hand of it, (we tried this about 3 times) we were told that next lesson we had to compose a new product of our own using the same elements we had been taught in this lesson, we were excited and a bit worried of how the results would end out.