Matching Images and Music

You will be preparing images and video to go along with live performances of the music of the Spring Concert, Be Our Guest! The Music of Disney on April 30.

Instructions:

1. Watch this video! to learn about putting images and videos into Mixcraft.
2. Choose an option from the list:

Aladdin - Arabian Nights, Friend Like Me, Prince Ali, A Whole New World (Kiya)
Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Jude)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Heigh Ho and Whistle While You Work (Mara)
Pocahontas - Colors of the Wind ( Momena)
Fantasia - Original (Suren)

Song list:

Lion King - Circle of Life ( Fadumo and Raiyan)
Pirates of the Caribbean ( Ashford)
It's A Small World After All (Yuhong)
Shrek 2 - Accidentally In Love (Selina)
Disney Medley - Beauty and the Beast, Be our Guest, Under the Sea, Part of Your World, Kiss the Girl
*NEW - create a montage of images from movies on this list to be played as a preview before the concert. 3-5 minute loop

Sign-up with Ms. Moynihan to get the song you want. Some songs will be doubled.

3. Open a Mixcraft Project and "Add Sound File" .  Navigate to the Dsektop/Jarvis CI/ Pick-up/Moynihan AMM2O1/Disney Music for Videos folder and add the sound file into a Mixcraft project.

4. Find HIGH RESOLUTION and HD images and/or videos that match the song provided to you by Ms. Moynihan.
Special note on VIDEO:
Use Clip Converter to convert Youtube videos to MP4 file format with the highest HD quality. THEN, open videos in Windows Live Movie Maker and "Save Movie" in High Resolution (WMV filetype). Then open the movie in Mixcraft.

If you find an online tool that converts Youtube vidoes to WMV please share it with the class.

Use Google Images Search Tools to only search for large files that are 640x480 minimum

5. Match the song with  the images/video using the Beat Match tool explained in the video above.

6. Add a Title at the beginning of the piece. Check for spelling with Ms. Moynihan.

7. Let the last image stay a little longer than required in case song goes too long in performance.

8. Mute or Remove the Audio track and Mixdown to WMV.  Put Song Name and your first name in title.

Writing Melodies and Phrases

Watch this short instruction about  Phrases and Melody. Stop after the first section.

Guess these melodies from their rhythms:
1.)

2.)


What is the name of this children's song?


This two part phrase has repeated rhythms like the first examples, AND the notes are the same.  Not a SUPER exciting melody, but obviously, very memorable!

This is a PHRASE:

• A phrase is a series of notes that sound complete even when played apart from the main song.
• PHRASES are usually 4 bars long.
• A good phrase contains a two parts: a question (1a) and an answer (1b). 

In your song, you will write 

• 2 phrases for the A section - each phrase is 4 bars long

and 

• 2 phrases for the B section  - each phrase is 4 bars long

Choosing notes for your melody:

The easiest choice of notes is:

All of these notes will sound great with all of your chords.

For more challenge, choose notes from the complete:

Some of these notes will conflict with your chords, so you have to use your ears to tell you what sounds good.  

Also, use this rule when choosing melody notes:

• Melody notes that are found in the chord that is happening at that time sound best.
• These are called CHORD TONES.

For example: The melody notes that sound best with the C major chord are C E and G.  

The notes that sound best with the G Major Chord are G, B and D.