1. Browse the Macaulay Library for bird sounds that you find interesting. Note these down for later.

2. Using your audio samples as inspiration, write 3 short cells/motifs based on these bird calls for either your instrument, or another instrument. They may be either a transcription of bird calls, or simply inspired by what you have heard. These must be performable by you. Notate these either on staff paper, or using graphic notation.

3. Cut out your ideas so that each motif is one separate piece of paper.

4. In groups of 2-3, arrange your motifs in order of least energetic to most energetic.

5. Decide as a group how you will be performing your motifs, in the style of Daybreak. Think about the ways you can develop your motifs using imitation, rhythmic augmentation/diminution, retrograde (upside down or back to front), etc. Also think about how you might orchestrate your motifs to mimic the soundscape of birds.

6. Practice playing your arrangement in your group! You will be performing these to the rest of the class, so be ready!

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Activity from the Other Voices Creative Education Kit.

NSW Department of Education. (2020). Other Voices Creative Education Kit - Tristian Coelho - Daybreak. Retrieved from

https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/key-learning-areas/creative-arts/stages-4-and-5/music#Other2