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Moody Music

This unit addresses the topic of what sound is scientifically, and how music can affect our moods. The main concept students will learn is that musical elements can be carefully arranged to manipulate emotions. This knowledge will increase their awareness of how advertisements, movies, music in shopping malls, all use specially chosen sounds and music to make customers or clients feel and behave in a certain way. It will also empower them to choose the music they listen to with an awareness that it can affect them emotionally.

In this unit they will design and make their own musical instrument and then compose a piece of music to create a desired mood.

Curriculum-framing questions

1. How can we change our personal environment to improve our lives? 2. What does environment mean? 3. What influence does sound have on human moods? 4. Does everyone perceive sound the same? 5. How can sound improve our lives? 6. How can it affect us adversely? 7. How can sound be arranged to affect our emotions?







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