Music - composition

 In music we have been looking at the work of the composer Sibelius and in particular his piece Finlandia. Today we talked about how the beginning sounds like a storm. We then had a go at creating our own class composition about a storm by coming up with symbols and sounds to depict a storm. We practised it before performing it together. The final result really sounded like a storm! 



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