AS final Starting Points homework for both groups Wed. 2nd
Please finish your entire quartet on Sibelius, complete with tempo marking, dynamics and articulation and with any corrections suggested and email it to Tom by the end of Wednesday (D group: I will give you feedback on your emailed compositions on Monday, so you should finish Exercise 16 over the weekend and then complete the rest of the task for the end of Wednesday).
I will take in Starting Points booklets for the final time on THURSDAY for both groups, so please make sure you bring them with you.
Workshop: 1.15 on Monday
AS (D) Homework
1) Complete Exercises 13 & 14 for Thursday’s lesson
2) I will return your quartet template in the lesson on Thursday. Please transfer this onto Sibelius by the time we have our lesson on Friday. There is a workshop 3.00-5.00 on Thursday, which would be a good opportunity to do this if you need the time on Sibelius.
AS (A) Homework for Thursday 26th
I will return your quartet work to you on Tuesday. Before Thursday’s, lesson I want you to have inputted all the work so far onto Sibelius and emailed it to me. If you haven’t finished this you will be required to stay for the composition workshops at 3.00 or 4.00 on Thursday. Make sure you include dynamics, articulation and appropriate tempo marking.
A2 (G) Homework set w/c 23rd Sept.
Composition
Complete a section of your composition and send it to me as a Sibelius file by email before the end of college on Monday 30th please. I will also take in your models paperwork on Tuesday.
Chorale (due in Thursday 3rd Oct.)
Complete Worksheet 05 (FP1) in the Fingerprints Workbook
Applied (due in Thursday 3rd)
Read pp. 58-61 and write a couple of paragraphs describing the Tristan chord in particular and Wagner’s harmony in general
Instrumental (due in Monday 30th)
Complete all of the questions on this worksheet. This MUST be done ready for next lesson. There will be a workshop on Friday at 11.30am in the music room in which we will look at how to identify harmony features; attendance at this workshop is essential if you find any of this work difficult.
A2 (F) Homework set w/c 23rd Sept.
Composition
Not yet set – see last week’s homework
Chorale (due in Wednesday 2nd Oct.)
Complete Worksheet 04
Applied (due in Thursday 3rd Oct.)
Read pp. 58-61 and write a couple of paragraphs describing the Tristan chord in particular and Wagner’s harmony in general
Instrumental (due in Wednesday 2nd)
Not yet set – see last week’s homework
AS (A) Homework for Monday 23rd
1) Finish transferring your circle of fifths work onto the quartet template, using a simple texture from the models given in the starting points booklet
2) Finish Exercise 14 in the starting points booklet
AS (D) Homework for Wednesday 25th
First (you should have made a start on this already)
Transfer your corrected and improved Example 8a and 8b to the quartet template (last page)
Choose one of the textures in the Starting Points handbook (the most straightforward is on page 10) and adapt it as an accompaniment for your tune.
1) Make sure that you have full chords as much as possible
2) Make sure that the inidividual parts have some melodic flow (avoid large leaps)
Second (after Thursday’s lesson)
Complete Exercise 10
Third (over the weekend)
Transfer Exercise 10 onto quartet template and add texture
A2 (G) Homework set w/c 16th Sept.
Composition
Complete the relevant Composition Model Sheet
Chorale (due in Friday 27th)
Complete Worksheet 04
Applied (due in Thursday 26th)
Read Wagner Extract 2 in Source Book and briefly describe how Tristan and Isolde fits in with events in Wagner’s personal and professional life.
Read Wagner Extract 3 in Source Book and identify four aspects of Tristan and Isolde that are particularly innovative
Instrumental (due in Monday 23rd)
- Complete the transpositions – remember that the clarinet sounds a tone lower and the horn sounds a major 6th lower than written.
- Use the information in your Beethoven pack to complete the structure in your Anthology and on your worksheet.
A2 (F) Homework set w/c 16th Sept.
Composition
Complete the relevant composition model sheet
Chorale (due in Wednesday 25th)
Complete Worksheet 03 (A3), following the method very carefully.
Applied (due in Thursday 26th)
Read Wagner Extract 2 in Source Book and briefly describe how Tristan and Isolde fits in with events in Wagner’s personal and professional life.
Read Wagner Extract 3 in Source Book and identify four aspects of Tristan and Isolde that are particularly innovative
Instrumental (due in Wednesday 25th)
- Complete the transpositions – remember that the clarinet sounds a tone lower and the horn sounds a major 6th lower than written.
- Use the information in your Beethoven pack to complete the structure in your Anthology and on your worksheet.
AS (A) Homework for Thursday Sept. 19th
Complete Exercise 10, following the instructions carefully.
- Remember that the circle of fifths goes from I down in fifths (I-IV-vii-iii etc.)
- The sequence should be exact – so the second and third bars should be identical to the first other than being transposed down a step
- Put in a bass line and melody – try to avoid parallel fifths and octaves (some of your bass notes might be the third of the chord – i.e. a first inversion – to avoid this)