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In year 2 we will be using IT to explore the decisions composers make when they create music.
Why repeat musical ideas?
Why use ideas that contrast one another?
Why are some sounds long and some sounds short?

Check out Beethoven’s famous Symphony Number 5 below and notice how some sounds are short and some long.

Why do you think he chose to organise his sounds like this?

Charles Ives – The Unanswered Question