Music and

Me
Olivia Mar
 About Me
These are my
budgies This is me on my birthday, my
birthday is on the 15th April 2010

This is my family: my mum, my dad

and my brother named Hayden. We
love travelling
My Musical Past

● St Aidan’s (5&6) and Warrigal Road State

School(prep-4) was my old primary schools

● I did Clarinet at Warrigal Road State School

 My Musical Now

Piano Clarinet
I play the piano, I have been I play the clarinet. I played in
playing for 7 years year 4 then quit but rejoined this
year

Choir When/what music

I sing in a choir; Voices I like listening to music when I
study and learn. My favourite
artist is Taylor Swift
 Goal 1
Know more and more
about music

My Musical Goal 2
Future Live (not like a career
though) and love music like
you, Miss Penman

Goal 3
Keep doing/playing/singing
music and use in my daily
life
 Hopes and Fears

Hope Fear

I hope that… I am afraid that…

I become a good a msuician (not Every one will judge me about
as a career though), love and how I play/sing in music
learn about music
 Music
Challenge
1
 My Musical Family
Family Member: Mum
Title: Righteous Brothers – unchained melody
Find it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY
What things can I hear? What does this song make me wonder?
1. percussion: drums
2. Feels calm
3. Starts calm and relaxing
4. tempo is really slow
5. Soft (piano)
6. String instruments
7. Low pitched to high pitched
8. Ends high pitched
9. What is this song about?
10. Gets more exciting at the end
11. Is this a romantic song?
12. Eventually goes to a crescendo
13. wind instruments; flutes’
14. Gentle song
15. Did Righteous Brothers unchained melody come from a movie?
16. Why is Unchained melody called unchained melody?
 16. Was this song very popular when it got released?
17. Smooth
18. Feels like a wedding sound or somewhere romantic
19. Lots of long notes; minimums, semibreves
20. Who sang this song?

EXTENSION: What is YOUR favourite song? What can you hear? What does this song make you
wonder? My one of my favourite song is Blank Space (there are many more like 100 years).

What did she base this song on?

Big start
Energetic
tempo of moderately fast
romantic

How is it different to the song you researched?

These songs are similar like they both feel quite romantic but they are also very different for example
Blank Space feels more energetic and exciting whereas unchained melody seems more calm and the
tempo in Blank space is much faster than Unchained Melody.