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A2 (D) Homework set w/c 15th September

Instrumental

Not yet set – see last week

Applied

No homework this week

Chorale

Complete Worksheet 04 (A3) to hand in during the lesson

Composing

Complete your motivic piece and submit on Moodle by the end of TUESDAY please

It should be for a melody instrument (yours if you play one) and use only material from the sheet completed in class (obviously you can transpose it). Remember to include articulation and dynamics.

A2 (A) Homework set w/c 15th September

Instrumental

Not yet set – see last week

Applied

No homework this week

Chorale

Complete Worksheet 04 (A3) to hand in during the lesson

Composing

Not yet set – see last week

AS (F) Homework set week commencing 15th September

Workshops for help with homework Tuesday and Thursday at 1.15

Starting Points

On Tuesday next week I will take in your Starting Points booklets to mark everything up to Exercise 13B

Please submit bars 9-18 of the Starting Points Quartet composition exercise as a Sibelius file on AS Moodle by the end of WEDNESDAY (under Weekly Submissions – attach the Sibelius file and make sure you click on submit when you are done)

Vocal set works

We did not do Vocal this week so we could stay on top of the Starting Points programme.

AS (G) Homework set week commencing 15th September

Workshops for help with homework Tuesday and Thursday at 1.15

Starting Points

On Tuesday I will take in Exercise 13

Please submit bars 9-18 of the Starting Points Quartet composition exercise as a Sibelius file on AS Moodle by the end of WEDNESDAY (under Weekly Submissions – attach the Sibelius file and make sure you click on submit when you are done)

Vocal set works

Create a Coggle for Locus Iste that we started in class:

  • Use this Coggle Template (or adapt the one you started). You will need a Google/Gmail account to do this
  • Look at the GSMIRTH Short Guide in your handbooks to help you
  • You must add at least two features of the music per category
  • Either email me a PDF of your Coggle before the lesson or bring a print-off to hand in
  • You will find performances of Bruckner’s Locus Iste on Youtube

Workshops

See below for Music Workshop times. Those marked with an asterisk are in C4 (English block) all others are in the Music Room.

 

Workshops

 

 

AS (F) Homework set weeks commencing 1st and 8th of September

Workshops for help with homework Tuesday and Thursday at 1.15

Starting Points

For Thursday 11th – Finish Exercises 3 and 4 in the starting points book and do stage one of Exercise 6.

Vocal set works

Finish the Vocal Works Summary Sheet. Spend as much time Googling as it takes to listen to the pieces on the Short History of Music Moodle (Anthology Tracks)

AS (G) Homework set weeks commencing 1st and 8th of September

Workshops for help with homework Tuesday and Thursday at 1.15

Starting Points

For Thursday 11th – Finish Exercises 3 and 4 in the starting points book and do stage one of Exercise 6.

Vocal set works

For Monday 15th – Finish the Vocal Works Summary Sheet

A2 (D) Homework set w/c 1st September and 8th September

Instrumental

EITHER using the mini essay completed in July OR starting afresh, write a detailed report about use of harmony in Haydn’s Joke quartet. Start with the sentence ‘Like the Corelli, the harmony in Haydn’s Joke quartet is mainly diatonic and functional but with some occasional dissonance’.

Applied

No homework this week

Chorale

For Friday 12th – Finish steps 1 and 2 of Worksheet 1

Composing

By the end of Tuesday 16th please upload your piece ‘On D’ onto Moodle. Lots of dynamics and effects and different textures please!

 

A2 (A) Homework set w/c 1st September and 8th September

Instrumental

EITHER using the mini essay completed in July OR starting afresh, write a detailed report about use of harmony in Haydn’s Joke quartet. Start with the sentence ‘Like the Corelli, the harmony in Haydn’s Joke quartet is mainly diatonic and functional but with some occasional dissonance’.

Applied

No homework this week

Chorale

For Thursday 11th – Finish steps 1 and 2 of Worksheet 1

Composing

Finish the mini composition based only on the note D. Your piece must be in Ternary form, last around 1 minute and should be presented a detailed Sibelius score.

AS Homework – w/c 1st September

  • Short  History of Music Follow-up task (due on Monday for G group and Tuesday for F Group)
  • Create a Google account if you do not already have one
  • Follow the http://www.alevelmusic.com blog (top of this page)
  • Make sure you have all relevant dates from your handbook in your diaries and those of your parents/guardians
  • Sign up for some CBSO concerts across the year
  • Make sure you have a folder and at least 5 dividers just for music
  • Complete your Unit 1 Initial Proposals form
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