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Kindergarten - 5th Grade Student MIDI Compositions
The scores on this site were created with the software program Sibelius. To be able to view the score while listening to the piece you will need to have the Sibelius Scorch plug-in installed on your computer. This is a free program which you can download by clicking here. Use the "Web Score" link to view scores online with Scorch.
Twice a year theVermont MIDI Project offers students the opportunity to have their pieces performed by professional musicians. The concerts take place in the fall and the spring. You are invited to listen and view the compositions selected for the Opus 9 concert which was held in April 2004.
| Medieval Fanfare© Zach, Beryl, Woody Marion Cross School |
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We are writing for brass quartet and have chosen Rondo form again for our piece. For our B, C and D parts we have an instrument branching off on a duet with the horn. |
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| Dance of the Mice© William Bridport Central School |
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| My name is William and I have been playing piano since I was five. I am in second grade. This is the first song I have written. I think it is bouncy. I like the name I chose. I repeated some parts and I put a part backwards. I hope you like it as much as I do. |
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| Traffic© Hannah & Kelsey Newport City Elementary |
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| We started with our title and added the notes and beat to make our song sound like traffic. The tempo is 120 and it is in the key of B-flat. |
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| Moonlight© Ethan Founders Memorial School |
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| My assignment was to compose a song from scratch with a recorder line, a drum line, and a xylophone line. The drum and xylophone lines always had to repeat. My piece has little repetition in the recorder line. I got the name "Moonlight" because the speed and the combination of notes reminded me of the stars in the sky. |
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| Sweet and Sour© Mara The Maple Street School |
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| I play the recorder and the piano. I started out calling this piece Superwoman and Superman, so it is about contrasts. |
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| My First Symphony© Sean Champlain Elementary School |
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| I am a third grade student and this is my first time composing. I started writing for the violin and then wanted both the violin and the cello. I was allowed to write anything I wanted. |
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A Walk on Main Street |
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We are fifth-graders, playing flute for our second year. The assignment was to write an ABA piece. We wrote the A section because Chelsea hummed a rhythm and Sarabeth made up a tune. We like playing rounds in our flute group, so Allyson wondered if this tune would work as a round. We think it does. We wrote the B section basically the same way. Then we copied the A section, and thought it would be fun to end the way we did. |
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| Fiesta© Katie, Bridget The Grammar School |
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| Our assignment was to write a piece with a motif. Our motif is in measures 1&2,7&8, 19&20. Our piece is in 4/4 time and in the key of A minor. The tempo is 180. We also added a percussion part with agogo. Our voices are cello, nylon guitar and a tom drum. We hope you like it. |
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| Just a Song© Johannah, Bethany Bridport Central School |
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| This a piece for piano and flute. This is our first piece we have composed. We both play flute and Bethany also plays piano. We are in 5th grade and like music. We just starting putting notes in, and it turned into the melody that we are using. We chose chords to match the flute melody that Johannah wrote. After we got feedback online, we made a middle section that switched the instruments so that first the piano played the first part of our melody, and then the flute played the middle part of the melody, then the piano played the last part of our melody. We ended by repeating the whole melody with the flute, and piano playing the chords. |
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| Taking Flight© Jahn Marion Cross School |
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| I wrote this song for recorder in music class. I wrote 4 measures in AABA form, then my teacher wanted me to write 4 more with a different rhythm. Then I repeated the first part to make the whole song ABA |
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| Tinker's Journey© Alexis Champlain Elementary School |
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| My form for the A section is ABAB and the B section is ABCD. I chose to name this Tinker's Journey because in the end of the song there is something that sounds like a tinker. The instruments are the drum, sandpaper, the bells, and the tinker. I started by putting two little compositions together and that formed the A section. Then I made question and answers and that formed the B section. |
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| Haunted© Chelsea The Maple Street School |
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| I started to write this piece for piano because my friend Mara and I were going to compose pieces with the same title, which started out as Superwoman. At first I thought I would use recorder and piano, because I play both. Then I did just piano. We both changed the titles too. I played this at my piano lessons last year. My teacher said Haunted is a good title for a piece in a minor key. |
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| In the Graveyard© Ms. Fay's 4th Grade Class Rochester School |
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| This is our first composition. It is based on the song "Skin and Bones". We wrote the lyrics first, thinking of things the old woman saw in the graveyard. Then we had to figure out how to write the rhythm for those words. Our teacher chose ABA form, so we had to choose words for the third line that had the same rhythm as the first. Then, we chose notes we can play on the recorder. We played the piece, and made some changes, sometimes because we liked it better, and sometimes because it was easier to play. Our teacher planned to end on the note G, but we liked the sound better to end on E. |
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| Whispering Pines© Guillaume The Grammar School |
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| The assignment was to compose a harmonic piece in 4/4 time with a motif of 4 measures. My motif is the first and last 4 measures. |
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| Empty House© Chris Founders Memorial School |
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| My piece is AABA. The teacher gave us the rhythm, and we could use the notes F,G,A. We then added harmony (3rds or 5ths). The inspiration for this piece was to go up and down on F,G,A. |
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| Fast Track© Chris Newport City Elementary |
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| I wanted this piece to be interesting, so I put together a lot of instruments and pieced together different melody patterns. I am in 6th grade and have been composing for 3 years. This is the first song that I have started by myself. |
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