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AS Music Homework – Group BD – w/c 14th September
Starting Points
Please make sure you know your embellishments (p. 42 in the Handbook – also in the Handbook on this site) for Friday, when we will have a spot test.
AS Music Homework – Group BD – w/c 7th September
Starting Points
Complete all the exercises up to and including Exercise 4b on page 5. If you are struggling, please don’t tell me in the lesson on Wednesday that you haven’t managed to complete it – come to the workshop at 11:30 on Monday.
AS Music Homework – Group BB – w/c 7th September
Starting Points
Complete all the exercises up to and including Exercise 4b on page 5. If you are struggling, please don’t tell me in the lesson on Wednesday that you haven’t managed to complete it – come to the workshop at 11:30 on Monday.
Put Exercise 8a and 8b on the relevant part of the String Quartet template. Please stick VERY CLOSELY to the models.
A2 Homework – w/c 7th September
Composition
Please finish the first Orchestration Exercise by the end of Tuesday and submit on Moodle. I have tried to make the relevant Moodle bits a little easier to use by collapsing the scores and tracks into one folder. Where there is not a track you are supposed to search on Youtube or similar to find it.
Instrumental
Not yet set
CBSO Concerts Trips 2015/16
We have got tickets for four brilliant concerts this year. See below for details. You can book as many as you want on the booking form below, which you need to print off and take to registry with a payment:
>> Link to booking form <<
| Thursday 1st October | Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
Mozart – Piano Concerto in Eb, K 271 Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 |
CBSO / Edward Gardner / Lars Vogt | |
| Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 is one of his most popular masterpieces. The famous horn tune at the end is magical, but even more so is the way the whole symphony builds to this moment. Brilliant young German pianist Lars Vogt is playing Mozart’s sparkling little Piano Concerto in Eb, before which Gardner is conducting Mendelssohn’s well-known depiction of a sea trip off Scotland. | |||
| Wednesday 11th November | Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2 Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 1 |
CBSO / Ben Gernon / Anna Vinnitskaya | |
| Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony is his first really significant work and in it he aimed to depict a series of wintery scenes. Shostakovich’s second piano concerto is one of his most cheerful and popular works. It was written as a 19th birthday present for his son Maxim and packs in an impressive amount of sparkling piano fireworks into its twenty minutes. Ravel’s Le Tombeau was written in homage to the Baroque composer Couperin and presents a Baroque suite spiced up with a sprinkling of twentieth century chromaticism and dissonance. | |||
| Wednesday 27th January | Haydn – Symphony No. 92
Symanowsky – Violin Concerto Brahms – Symphony No. 4 |
CBSO / Lahav Shani / Nicola Benedetti | |
| The highlight of this concerto should be the fabulous Nicola Benedetti playing Symamowsky’s colourful abnd fantastical violin concerto, but Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is an undoubted masterpiece, particularly the majestic fourth movement and Haydn’s joyous 92nd Symphony should put you in a good mood from the start! | |||
| Wednesday 9th March | Borodin – Polotsvian Dances
Golijov – Azul Shostakovich – Symphony No. 15 |
CBSO / Alpesh Chauhan / Eduardo Vassalo | |
| Shostakovich’s last symphony starts of in a light-hearted vein but unlike the Piano concerto from the November concert, there are many more dark moments in this intriguing and moving work. At the other end of the spectrum is Borodin’s famous set of pieces from his opera Prince Igor, which evoke exotic Russian dances. In the middle of this Russian sandwich is a UK premier of a cello concerto by Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov, which is inspired by the Baroque concerto tradition. | |||
A Level Results 2015
Congratulations to all our AS and A2 students. We have had some excellent results this year, with a big improvement at AS in particular. The headline results are as follows, but I am particularly pleased by the superb composition results, which are a testament to the hard work.of all our students.
A2 – 66% of students received an A or B
AS – 68% of students received an A or B
We had a 100% pass rate and as ever our students have gone on to a wide range of excellent departments and colleges, including Liverpool and Southampton Universities, Royal Welsh Academy of Music and Drama, Royal Academy of Music in London, Royal Northern and Birmingham Conservatoire.
(See summary of 2014 results here)
Summer Tasks (A2)
Applied
Please complete this set of Short Essay Tasks. You should also listen to the set works listed in the handbook and on the CD.
Welcome to New Students
Welcome to our new students. You will find information on this blog about most things
Over the summer you were set some tasks:
- Complete AS Performance initial proposals for Friday11th September
- Complete the Short History of Music tasks for your first music lesson
- Brush up on your basic theory (Keys, Chords and Cadences in particular)
- Buy a ring binder and a pack of dividers
- Make sure your instrument is in good working order
- Go through the list of key dates with your parents and make sure they are in diaries
- Follow this blog and our Facebook page and our Twitter accounts (also duplicated on Facebook here)
Any worries – email Tom Pankhurst (tom.pankhurst@kedst.ac.uk)
You should also like/follow our Facebook and Twitter accounts – see above.
[PS: don’t worry about the stuff below this post in our archive – it is all from the current AS year]
A2( both groups) Homework w/c 15th June
Composition
Make sure you have handed in your first sketch by the end of Friday. Your next deadline is finding four detailed influences from Moodle by the end of next Wednesday (24th). I will suggest a couple as part of my feedback over the weekend.
History and Listening
Presentations next week are Baroque Vocal Music / Classical Orchestral Music
Instrumental
See last week
A2 (both groups) Homework w/c 8th June
Group G – Instrumental Set Works
- Fill in the Pavane and Galliard information sheet and bring it to the next lesson on Thursday.
- Over the NEXT TWO WEEKS complete independent learning tasks from the Stretch & Challenge menu handed out in class. You must do at least the Appetizer plus either Light Bites and/or ‘For the larger appetite’.
Group F -Instrumental Set Works
As above but Pavane and Galliard work to be handed in next week’s lesson (Tuesday 23rd June)
Composition
Choose your brief and main influence and submit the latter (find the pro forma on the A2 Moodle) onto Moodle by the end of Tuesday (for F group) / Monday (for G group)
History and Listening
Read pages 2-7 and 22-5 in the Handbook by Wednesday (F group) / Monday (G group)
Start preparing your presentations in your pairs