Remixular Bells

In this unit of work you will examine how Mike Oldfield built the opening of his seminal progressive rock work Tubular Bells. By following each step as instructed below, you will rebuild the work yourself, remix it, and then compose a new piece based on the original. Simply follow the process outlined as follows:

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Listening

Learn how the opening is put together by layering in ostinati (repeated patterns) in different instruments. Complete your own structural analysis.

Recreate in GarageBand

Download loops to recreate Mike Oldfield’s masterpiece yourself, using your structural graph as a guide.

Recreate in Sibelius and your own composition

Put the composition together again, but this time with music notation in Sibelius. Reflect on what you’ve learned and put it into practice in your own composition.

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