Student Work

American International School Vietnam:

Please see the menu below to select the different types of student work available. Each unit and task is briefly described before the samples of student work. All of these projects were completed through the MYP or DP Programs. For student protection names have been removed or used with student permission.

Night & Day Compositions

Night & Day Compositions

Grade 6/MYP 1 Unit

Unit Focus: Students learn about the elements of music through the lense of Night and Day. They then compose two pieces of music- one representing the day, and one representing night.

Student Samples:

This final composition involves students composing a piece representing night- specifically an ABA composition representing a lunar eclipse. This project was completed through noteflight.

Student Example 1

Student Example 2

Student Example 3

Cartoon Compositions

Grade 7/MYP 2 Unit

Unit Focus: Students learn about the music behind their favorite cartoons- the specific techniques that are used when combining animation and audio. Students focus on listening and identifying how the music in the background of animation connects to the action on screen- and how to create it themselves.

Student Samples:

This final composition involves students composing the background music (underscoring) and sound effects for a cartoon clip. All audio was removed from the clips and the remaining audio should be original. This project was completed through soundtrap.

Protest Songs

Grade 8/MYP 3 Unit

Unit Focus: Students learn about protest songs, and the rich history music has connected to protest. Students work on the fundamentals of song and lyric writing and throughout the unit create their own protest songs on a subject they feel is appropriate for them.

Student Samples:

This final composition involves students composing a protest piece. Students could choose to write their own lyrics or use pre-existing poetry. This project was completed through soundtrap.

"Classical" Revamps

Grade 9/MYP 4 Unit

Unit Focus: Students learn about the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras of music- specifically the impact these eras had and have on western classical music.

Student Samples:

Using the knowledge they have gained students need to "revamp" a piece of classical music and make it appealing for a modern audience. Student's could do this by; changing the instrumentation of the piece, sampling portions of the piece for an EDM approach, changing the genre of the piece, or take a modern song and turn it into a classical composition. Students completed this through live performance or Soundtrap.

Videogame Chiptunes

Grade 9/MYP 4 Unit

Unit Focus: Students learn about the history of videogame music from its origins to modern day. Students explore new composition software and focus on 4 track restraints.

Student Samples:

Students were given the following prompt:

"The company Nintendo is looking for a new music composer/arranger! They have asked you to write a “Chiptune” composition roughly one to two minutes in length to go with the release of a new game titled “Killer Space Mission”!They want this piece to be in the style of old 8-bit music and have the same limitations for sound as the the old NES console had; 4 audio channels and one PCM channel.
You will use the online software BeepBox (www.beepbox.co) to create your track."

Musician in Me

Grade 9/MYP 4 Unit

Unit Focus: Students are introduced to the DP Contexts of music, and through their own explorations discover their personal, local, and global contexts.

Student Samples:

Students had to perform or compose pieces in their personal, local, and/or global contexts. Below are some of those explorations.