AS (G) Homework w/c 1st December
Instrumental (for Tuesday)
1. Consolidate your notes and anthology
2. Read the notes on Moodle for the Mozart (1 & 2 in the folder) and annotate your scores
3. Write the following essay, which must have an intro, conclusion and TEN clear points made, preferably in different paragraphs: Identify features of the Mozart that are typical of the Classical style
Remember the workshop for this class is on THURSDAY at 1.15
Vocal (for Monday)
Keep on working on intervals using the resources provided
Harmony (for Friday)
Cadence Worksheet 6 (given out in class but also p. 25 of Workbook)
Remember the workshop for this class is on TUESDAY at 1.15
Composition (end of Wednesday)
Not yet set – see last week
AS (F) Homework w/c 1st December
Instrumental (for Tuesday)
1. Consolidate your notes and anthology
2. Read the notes on Moodle for the Mozart (1 & 2 in the folder) and annotate your scores
3. Write the following essay, which must have an intro, conclusion and TEN clear points made, preferably in different paragraphs: Identify features of the Mozart that are typical of the Classical style
Remember the workshop for this class is on THURSDAY at 1.15
Vocal (for Wednesday)
Keep on working on intervals using the resources provided
Harmony (for Wednesday)
Cadence Worksheet 6 was given out in class (p. 25 of Workbook but I have taken these in for marking)
Remember the workshop for this class is on TUESDAY at 1.15
Composition (end of Wednesday)
You do not need to submit anything this week but by the end of the last day of term you must have submitted 4 sketches and 12 influences.
Remember the workshop for this class is on WEDNESDAY after college.
A2 (D) Homework set w/c 1st December
Instrumental
Not yet set – see last week
Applied
Essay: Identify features of the Gabrieli that would help you identify it as a work of a Venetian composer in the late Sixteenth Century. Make sure you read through the Rhinegold and Edexcel notes in the folder on Moodle FIRST and also use your Coggles
Timed essays next week on all three works
Chorale
No homework this week
There is no chorale workshop this week because Iain and I have had to swap our teaching due to a College Leadership Team away day. You may bring chorales to my Wednesday Composition workshop after college if you wish
Composing
You do not need to submit composition this week but you can if you wish for specific advice.
Composing workshop is on Wednesday after college.
A2 (A) Homework set w/c 1st December
Instrumental
Not yet set – see last week
Applied
Essay: Identify features of the Gabrieli that would help you identify it as a work of a Venetian composer in the late Sixteenth Century. Make sure you read through the Rhinegold and Edexcel notes in the folder on Moodle FIRST and also use your Coggles
Timed essays next week on all three works
Chorale
No homework this week.
There is no chorale workshop this week because Iain and I have had to swap our teaching due to a College Leadership Team away day
Composing
Not yet set – see last week
Piece of the week (December 1st 2014)
This week’s piece is Christus Vincit by the Scottish composer James MacMillan.
I have chosen it because some of us are going to see the UK premiere of his St Luke’s Passion at the CBSO this coming Thursday.
It was written in 1994 to be performed on St Cecilia’s day in St Paul’s in London. Listening to this piece you can imagine the soaring melismas and lush harmonies echoing through the resonant spaces of a grand cathedral. Being a devout Catholic, MacMillan’s religious music has a reverence and beauty that resonates even with miserable old atheists like me. His other music is worth exploring as well, particularly The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie and Veni, Veni Emmanuel, which are probably his most famous.
The text for Christus Vincit translates as follows:
Christ conquers
Christ is King
Christ is Lord of all
Piece of the week (November 24th 2014)
Each week I will pick a piece that you might want to give a quick listen. This week I have chosen a piece by BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week, Manuel de Falla (1876-1946).
De Falla, who is one of Spain’s most famous composers, wrote music that was often fantastically exotic and colourful but his Nights in the Garden of Spain (1915) is probably his most impressionistic – recalling Debussy in its use of orchestral and harmonic colours.
The third movement is entitled ‘The Gardens of the Sierra de Cordoba’ and moves between different types of meditation, beginning with wild music that depicts the famous whirling dance that Sufi Muslims do to induce a state of active meditation.
Catch it here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgukjLhPh-c
Aural practice
Interval Practice
Dictation Practice
AS (G) Homework w/c 24th November
Instrumental (for Tuesday)
Find the textures on the Textures finder given out in class. I will take these in.
Remember the workshop for this class is on THURSDAY at 1.15
Vocal (for Monday)
1. Revise for Skeleton Score tests next week
2. Get to know your intervals – these resources may help
Harmony (for Friday)
Finish page 23 in the harmony workbook. Make sure you have used Ib V I and Ic V I on BOTH melodic patterns.
Remember the workshop for this class is on TUESDAY at 1.15
Composition (end of Wednesday)
1. Update your composition, following the suggestions on Moodle
2. Start a new section of your piece. Try to link the new section motivically to your first section
Submit your new sketch on Moodle by Wednesday 4pm at the latest.
AS (F) Homework w/c 24th November
Instrumental (for Tuesday)
Find the textures on the Textures finder given out in class. I will take these in.
Remember the workshop for this class is on THURSDAY at 1.15
Vocal (for Wednesday)
1. Revise for Skeleton Score tests next week
2. Get to know your intervals – these resources may help
Harmony (for Wednesday)
Finish page 23 in the harmony workbook. Make sure you have used Ib V I and Ic V I on BOTH melodic patterns.
Remember the workshop for this class is on TUESDAY at 1.15
Composition (end of Wednesday)
You need to make corrections and complete another sketch. You MUST fill in the Tracker of Influences Used and submit that separately on Moodle. It really is all about influences at the moment.
Remember the workshop for this class is on WEDNESDAY at 3.40-5.00
A2 (D) Homework set w/c 24th November
Instrumental
Schumann ‘Kinderscenen’: continue the work started in class – for movements 3 and 11 describe the texture and instrumentation features, trying to add to the ‘texture is mdh’ starting point.
Write down your answers on a sheet of paper, not just in your anthology ready for next week’s starter.
Applied
- Read Source 03 in the Moodle on Gabrieli (here). Note down some key features of Venetian music in the 16th and 17th centuries
- Google and Youtube Sackbutts and Cornetts
Chorale
Complete Worksheet 13 (remember all chorale worksheets are available on this blog here)
Remember there is a chorale workshop on THURSDAY at 11.30 in C6.
Composing
Please submit Sibelius scores and structure planners as usual on Moodle by the end of TUESDAY.