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Character Theme Task

This document provides instructions for students to compose a character theme for a computer or video game character named Fael. It involves creating a two-bar melody using the C major pentatonic scale for the A section. Then, using the chromatic scale, students create a contrasting four-bar B section to describe the character jumping. Finally, students bring the two sections together in a ABA form and can optionally create a theme for the character's enemy Erif.

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Character Theme Task

This document provides instructions for students to compose a character theme for a computer or video game character named Fael. It involves creating a two-bar melody using the C major pentatonic scale for the A section. Then, using the chromatic scale, students create a contrasting four-bar B section to describe the character jumping. Finally, students bring the two sections together in a ABA form and can optionally create a theme for the character's enemy Erif.

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SECONDARY/KEY STAGE 3 MUSIC – COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAME MUSIC

Composing a Character
Theme for a Computer or
Video Game
Name Form

This is Fael, your


superhero from a new
Computer and Video
Game.
They can jump and
fight using rays of
sunlight!

STAGE 1 – Using the notes of the C MAJOR PENTATONIC SCALE, compose a TWO-BAR MELODY to
represent our character, FAEL. Record your ideas below.

When composing your character theme here,


think about the words ‘fight’ and ‘rays of
sunlight’ – can you describe these within your
Character Theme melody?

Add some STACCATO dots (.) to some of the notes in your melody.
Repeat (‘copy and paste’) your melody once you have finished making a 4-bar melody
SECONDARY/KEY STAGE 3 MUSIC – COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAME MUSIC
Add a drum track or rhythm backing track or to your 4-bar character melody?
SECONDARY/KEY STAGE 3 MUSIC – COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAME MUSIC
STAGE 2 – Developing a Character Theme
Many successful melodies, including CHARACTER THEMES from computer
and video games follow the structure:

Idea B will often relate to idea A, but contain some form of musical
contrast. The melody you created in Stage 1 will form the A section of
your CHARACTER THEME. Your task is now to create a contrasting B
section.

● Keep your B section melody to just 4 bars (like section A).

● This time, use the notes of the CHROMATIC SCALE

● When composing your Section B Character Theme here, think about the word ‘jump’ – can you
describe Fael “jumping about” within the computer and video game using a melody which LEAPS
leaving ‘gaps’ between notes (not using ‘next door notes’)? This is called DISJUNCT MOVEMENT.

Record your ideas below, adding some STACCATO dots (.) to some of the notes in your melody.

Stretch & Challenge: Can you add a JUMPING BASS LINE to your Section B Character Theme?

STAGE 3 – Bringing it all together


Make any changes to your Character Theme melody now – think about the PITCH or RHYTHM of the
notes – does it reflect Fael within the computer and video game? Would your chosen instrument(s),
voices, tones, timbres and sonorities ‘work’ within a computer and video game?
Rehearse and perform your Fael’s CHARACTER THEME in the following order: A A B A.

Stretch & Challenge: This is Erif, god of


Destruction. He is Fael’s
enemy and tries to scorch
Fael’s land by blasting
fireballs at the ground.
Can you create a
CHARACTER THEME for
Erif?

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