Last year you explored strategies on creating a simple motif or hook.  This year you will start to tell a story through music using one of the most common compositional strategies: Call and Response.  Your finished product will have 3 calls and responses. ## A Review of Hooks and Motifs “Hooks” and “Motifs” are the exact same thing; short melodic segments that are easily repeated and altered to create a full melodic phrase.  The only difference; one is a traditional compositional term, the other is what modern musicians tend to call it. ## A Review of Basic Compositional Devices ![[Pasted image 20250630104919.png]] **Repetition -** The simplest of all the compositional devices, simply repeating your hook or motif.  This can be used once or twice, but you should avoid using it too much for the fear of making your music boring. **Sequence** – Move your whole motif either up or down one or more steps, giving you a new idea. **Retrograde** – Rewrite your whole motif in backwards order, providing you a new idea. **Inversion** – Change the direction of the jumps without changing the size of the jumps, reflecting it on the first note. # The Motif Mr. Windsor is Giving You ![[Pasted image 20250630140548.png]] Use the motif shown here to write your composition.  Note that there are different transpositions for different instruments, make sure you use only your own instrument. ## Try some Compositional Devices On manuscript paper, either directly in the [[Call and Response.pdf|original assignment]] or by making your own manuscript paper at [blanksheetmusic.net](https://blanksheetmusic.net), practice some Compositional Devices with the motif provided. Don't miss any steps! 1. Write your clef 2. Write your key signature 3. Write the time signature 4. Write your version of the compositional device 5. Put a double-barline at the end. Practice each of the following Compositional Devices; - Sequence - Retrograde - Inversion # About Call-and-Response ![[Pasted image 20250630141058.png]] A call and response song uses musical phrases to tell a story.  Even without the lyrics to _The Last Saskatchewan Pirate_, you’d be able to hear a short phrase that sounds like a sentence starter, and another short phrase that sounds like it finishes the sentence; you can also hear combined phrases that sound like a question, and then combined phrases that sound like an answer.  This is a common musical strategy that has been in existence since near the dawn of sound. ## Starting your own Call-and-Response Song Follow the steps outlined here on manuscript paper, either in the [[Call and Response.pdf|original assignment]] or by making your own manuscript paper at [blanksheetmusic.net](https://blanksheetmusic.net). ### Make a 2-Measure sentence starter 1. On your manuscript paper, start with Mr. Windsor’s motif from the first page.  That can be your first measure. 2. Use a sequence, retrograde, inversion, or some combination to complete your sentence starter _but it can’t end on the first note of the scale, or else it will sound like a period to our sentence._  We need it to sound like a comma. ### Make a 2-Measure sentence finisher, make it sound like a question 1. Still on your manuscript paper, use a repetition, sequence, retrograde or inversion to start this part. 2. Use a sequence, retrograde, inversion, or some other creative strategy to finish your sentence.  _To make it sound like a question, make sure it ends on either the 2nd, 5th or 7th note of the scale_ (this will make it end on the <span style="font-family: serif;">V</span> chord). ### Your question is now done, now let's make a response! 1. On your manuscript paper, make a 2-Measure sentence starter (you can even repeat the original 2-sentence starter!) 2. Make a 2-Measure sentence finisher, but _to make it sound like a statement instead of a question, have it end on the 1st, 3rd or 5th note of the scale_ (this will make it end on the <span style="font-family: serif;">I</span> chord). ## Making a New Call and Response to Keep the Story Going A question and answer is fine on its own, but it doesn’t tell a story.  To keep the story going, you need another question and answer, preferably one that is based on the previous answer.  So let’s do it.  Using your manuscript paper, make another question-and-answer with a total of 8 bars.  To make it based on the first question and answer, we need to follow two simple rules; - Make it start with a sequence, retrograde or inversion of the original motif, but … - Also make sure it starts on the 4th, 6th or 1st notes of the scale (to make it start on the <span style="font-family: serif;">IV</span> chord). For this assignment, we want to make it sound as though there is still more story to come, so we still want to end both the question part _and_ the answer part on the 2nd, 5th or 7th note. ## Finish the Story We’ve now started the story, and even added more to it.  Now let’s finish the story.  Many musical stories bring back the original idea that was presented at the beginning to help bring everything together. 1. On your manuscript paper, start with the original motif once again. 2. Use a variety of repetitions, sequences, retrogrades and inversions to make your question, _and remember we want it to sound like a question, so it has to end on either the 2nd, 5th or 7th note of the scale_. 3. Use a variety of repetitions, sequences, retrogrades and inversions to finish the story.  _To make it sound very final, end it on the 1st note of the scale_. # The Good Copy You can complete this assignment either in [flat.io](https://flat.io) and get a **Private Shareable Link** to save in this assignment in **Google Classroom**, or you can complete this assignment on paper and hand it in directly (or take photos and upload to Google Classroom).  Some space below is provided for you to complete this task.