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Musical arrangement model

Activity 5 example

REPORT

What do we change from the original song?: Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel

1.- TITLE

FunkCanon (C Major)

2.- MUSIC ARRANGER/S

 

Dj Beat

3.- LYRICIST

Instrumental music, without lyrics

4.- MUSIC STYLE

- Main characteristics

Funk

Fusion of styles like soul, jazz, Latin rhythms and R & B

It was born in the 60s.

Dance beat.

Prominence of percussion and bass.

Music disco and hip-hop are influenced by this style.

5.- VOICES

Instrumental music, without voices

6.- TOPIC

- Analyse lyrics

Instrumental music, without lyrics

7.- INSTRUMENTS

- Melodic section

- Rhythmic section

Melodic section: 2 recorders, glockenspiel

Rhythmic section: guitar, bass, drumkit

8.- RHYTHM

- Tempo (speed)

- Time Signature

- Rhythm pattern

- Rhythm instruments

- Allegro (crotchet = 120)

- Time Signature: 4/4

- Rhythm pattern: patron

- Guitar, bass, drumkit

9.- MELODY

- Voice / melodic instuments

- Range

(from the lowest note to the highest)

- 2 recorders. Range C-F' (11 notes)

- Carillón: adorno melódico. Range D-E' (10 notes)

10.- HARMONY

- Key Signature

- Chords

- Harmonic instruments

- Clear

- C major

- Chords: C Major, G Major, A minor, E minor, F Major

- Chords Progression: I-V-VI-III-IV-I-IV-V

- Bass, guitar

11.- STRUCTURE

- Sections

(intro-verse-chorus-bridge-coda...)

Intro (cc 1-12)

Canon (4 variations 2 voices. Cc 13-28)

Duo (cc 29-32)

Coda (cc 33-41)

12.- FORM

(simple, binary, ternary, blues)

Simple

13.- LINKS

- Our version score

score                    

FunkCanon by adjbeat

14.- Why do we make these changes?

 

 To adapt an old music piece to a current dance style and to play ourselves with our music class instruments.


We change instruments (from the music classroom), tempo and rhythmic pattern (funk, dance), Time Signature (C Major), melody (range reduced).

15.- Other musical arrangements

 

score                 

                                                   Canon by Pachelbel by Brad Y. Ito

MuseScore Files

These are 2 versions from Canon in D:

1.- FunkCanon (our own version)

2.- Canon (Chromatic Percussion Ensemble) by Brad Ito (musical base in our version).

The files are in a format that allows us to open with MuseScore and modify them to create other versions.

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