AS (G) Homework w/c 23rd February
Instrumental (for Tuesday)
Not yet set – see half term homework
Vocal (for Monday)
Skeleton scores this week: Poulenc / Van Morrison
Skeleton scores next week: Shostakovich / Se quema
Harmony (for Friday)
Not yet set – see half term homework
Composition (end of Wednesday)
Not yet set
AS (F) Homework w/c 23rd February
Instrumental (for Tuesday)
Not yet set
Vocal (for Wednesday)
Skeleton scores this week: Poulenc / Van Morrison
Skeleton scores next week: Shostakovich / Se quema
Harmony (for Wednesday)
Not yet set – see half term homework
Composition (end of Wednesday)
Not yet set – see half term homework
A2 (D) Homework set w/c 23rd February
Instrumental
Not yet set – see half term homework.
Applied
I forgot to set this in class:
Using your notes and those on Moodle, please make a list of key features that are typical of Gamelan music, indicating which are specifically Balinese.
Chorale
Not yet set – see half term homework
Composing
Please submit your work in progress along with an annotated version of your feedback sheet by the end of TUESDAY. As well as working on your targets, please focus on dynamics, articulation and motivic links.
A2 (A) Homework set w/c 23rd February
Instrumental
Not yet set – see half term homework.
Applied
I forgot to set this in class:
Using your notes and those on Moodle, please make a list of key features that are typical of Gamelan music, indicating which are specifically Balinese.
Chorale
Not yet set – see half term homework
Composing
Not yet set
Piece of the week w/c 16th February
Pierre Boulez is a giant of C20 music and his 1984 piece Repons is a real masterpiece. It combines instruments and live electronics in an energetic and sparkling score with much detail to discover on repeated listenings.
Give it a go – it really is worth a listen
Boulez, who will be 90 in March, spent much of his career at the experimental electronic music studio he founded in Paris (IRCAM). Repons, like much of his work, is serial but has a panache and flamboyance not always found in modernist composers
AS (G) Homework w/c 9th February
Instrumental (for Tuesday)
Please read through and make brief notes Resource 02 in the Shostakovich folder on Moodle (click here) and the last three pages of resource 03 (the letter)
Vocal (for Monday)
Make sure all your notes are up to date in your anthology. Use notes on Moodle to supplement notes made in class (in the relevant folder).
Harmony (for Friday)
Homework is one of two options as agreed during the lesson:
1) Finish page 32 and 33
2) Finish just page 32 but attend a workshop on Tuesday 24th February
Remember the workshop for this class is on TUESDAY at 1.15
Composition
Not yet set
AS (F) Homework w/c 9th February
Instrumental (for Tuesday)
Please read through and make brief notes Resource 02 in the Shostakovich folder on Moodle (click here) and the last three pages of resource 03 (the letter)
Vocal (for Monday)
Make sure all your notes are up to date in your anthology. Use notes on Moodle to supplement notes made in class (in the relevant folder).
Remember the workshop for this class is on TUESDAY at 1.15
Harmony
Homework is one of two options as agreed during the lesson:
1) Finish page 32 and 33
2) Finish just page 32 but attend a workshop on Tuesday 24th February
Composition (end of Wednesday)
For the half term hand in next FRIDAY you need to submit:
- Printed composition
- Printed influences tracker
- Printed structure overview
- All of the above on Moodle
For interim feedback early next week, please submit on Monday or Tuesday on Moodle commenting how you have got on with your targets
A2 (D) Homework set w/c 9th February
Instrumental
1. Mock exam follow up: use the ‘indicative content’ sheet to check what you included and what you missed out on the recent mock paper
2. Complete the worksheet issued in class: harmony and tonality in the Tippett. Use your answers to,write a mini essay entitled ‘compare and contrast the use of harmony and tonality in the Beethoven and Tippett set works’.
This work should be handed in on the first lesson back after half term (Monday)
Applied
Please use the notes on Moodle, the score and Google to complete the Glossary given out in class. You should also annotate your score showing, for example, a gongan and a seleh.
Chorale
Finish Chorale 2005
Composing
Not yet set
A2 (A) Homework set w/c 9th February
Instrumental
1. Mock exam follow up: use the ‘indicative content’ sheet to check what you included and what you missed out on the recent mock paper
2. Complete the worksheet issued in class: harmony and tonality in the Tippett. Use your answers to,write a mini essay entitled ‘compare and contrast the use of harmony and tonality in the Beethoven and Tippett set works’.
This work should be handed in on the first lesson back after half term (Tuesday)
Applied
Please use the notes on Moodle, the score and Google to complete the Glossary given out in class. You should also annotate your score showing, for example, a gongan and a seleh.
Chorale
Finish Chorale 2005
Composing
Not yet set
Piece of the week (February 9th)
This week’s pick is courtesy of George Bandy, who requested “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity” from Holst’s The Planets. Written during World War I, Holst’s colourful and inventive score has remained a firm favourite with concert goers nearly 100 years on. The energetic pentatonic semiquavers that kickstart “Jupiter” are as simple as they are memorable and effective. There is lots in this and indeed the rest of the suite that is crying out to be pinched for influences for AS and A2 composition …
PS. requests always welcome!