Creating Music at Home
This resource includes composing activities for children and young people that they can do at home with or without instruments. The activities are all inspired by or linked to existing pieces of music. Activities will be added each week. Upcoming themes include: sounds in the house and garden, superheroes and graphic scores.
Illustration: Mina Braun
Creating Music at Home Resources
8 Resources
Composing Made Simple Creating Music at Home
Composing is often thought of a magical art that only a few special people can do. In this simple guide to composing, discover that composing is something anyone can do if they open their ears, play and experiment.
In the garden... Creating Music at Home
In this activity you will create music using things you find in the garden or park inspired by composer John Cage's Child of Tree.
In the house... Creating Music at Home
In this activity you will make music for your family playing objects that you find around your home, inspired by John Cage's Living Room Music.
Graphic scores Creating Music at Home
In this activity you will create your own musical graphic scores inspired by composers such as Cornelius Cardew, Cathy Berberian and John Cage.
Superheroes Creating Music at Home
In this activity you will create music for a superhero of your own design. This might be a melody, a rhythm or sound effect or a combination of these.
Doodling Varèse Creating Music at Home
In this activity you will listen to BCMG oboe player Melinda Maxwell performing her own composition Sounding Out Varèse inspired by Octandre by Edgard Varese. You will doodle along to the music and then use your doodle to create your own music.
