LIEDER LEADERS - Understanding Art Songs
 

 

Composing Original Art Songs

 

 

Students used electronic keyboards or MIDI controller keyboards and sequencing software to compose original artsongs. Even though each group used the same poem for text, the compositions range widely in sound and style.
Art Songs Based on the Poem: Is The Moon Tired by Christina Rossetti
2006 2004    
kbrd_p8q206 q3p2g4 q2p3g3 q3p1g1
ws3_p6q206 q3p2g2 q3p2g5 q3p3g5
ws4_p6q206 q3p2g1 q4p2g2 q3p3g4
ws4_p8q206 q2p2g6 q4p2g1 q4p3g2
ms_final_p6q206 q3p1g3 q2p3g2 q4p2g4
ms_p8q206 q3p1g2 q4p3g3 q4p2g3
  g5_04 q3p3g3  
  q2p3g4 q3p3g1  

 

 

In 2005 5th grade students created artsongs using the text from poems created by 2nd graders expressing their feelings about the Tsunami tragedy in Southeast Asia. Here are recordings of two original artsongs.

tsunamigroup4_p4q205

tsunamigroup2_q4p205







originalartsong__tsunamigroup2_proce.mp3


originalartsong__tsunamigroup2_pro 1.mp3