Using ICT to capture, change and combine sounds.
National Curriculum extract |
How can Notate 2 support this? |
Knowledge, skills and understanding
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Creating and developing musical ideas – composing skills
2) Pupils should be taught how to:
b) explore, choose, combine and organise musical ideas within musical structures.
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Notate 2 allows the user to explore sounds by changing the pitch and length of notes, choose different instruments to experiment with, combine sounds by using multiple tracks and work within musical structures. |
Responding and reviewing – appraising skills
3) Pupils should be taught how to:
a) analyse and compare sounds |
When using Notate 2, since the user does not have to concentrate on performing, and since the composition can easily be repeated in whole or in part, working with Notate 2 can allow the user to analyse and compare sounds more effectively. |
c) improve their own and others’ work in relation to its intended effect.
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When using Notate 2, the music can be stored electronically which makes it easier for pupils to reload it at a later time to improve it in relation to its intended effect. Also, in making improvements, pupils are not limited by what they can themselves perform. |
Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding
4) Pupils should be taught:
a) to listen with attention to detail and to internalise and recall sounds with increasing aural memory |
Notate 2 allows the user to listen with attention as they are not having to concentrate on performing. |
b) how the combined musical elements of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture and silence can be organised within musical structures [for example, ostinato] and used to communicate different moods and effects
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Notate 2 allows the user to work with all the elements of music: pitch (notes of different pitches, scales), duration (long/short notes, different rhythms), dynamics (limited to altering relative volume of tracks using mixer), tempo (changing speed of music), timbre (selecting different instruments), texture (using multiple tracks), silence (e.g. through rests), structure (ostinato patterns, phrases, repetition) and to create music that can communicate a range of moods and effects. |
c) how music is produced in different ways [for example, through the use of different resources, including ICT] and described through relevant established and invented notations
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Notate 2 allows the user to produce music through the use of ICT resources and to use relevant established notations (staff notation and guitar chord symbols). |
Breadth of study |
5) During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:
c) working on their own, in groups of different sizes and as a class |
Notate 2 can be used effectively to support pupils working individually or in pairs, but is also appropriate for whole class demonstration using suitable display technology. |
d) using ICT to capture, change and combine sounds |
Notate 2 allows the user to capture sounds (using the record function), change (by editing, transposing, copying, pasting, inverting, etc) and combine (by using multiple tracks). |
