Composition (due on Thursday 15th December)

Write a passage of 16 bars or more in a fast 4/4 (or 2/2 like the Haydn) as follows:

• Uses strings, flutes, oboes, horns and timps
• In G, D or A major
• Use phrases that are multiples of 2 bars
• No more than one or two chords per bar (depending on speed)
• Lands regularly on I
• Melody is made up of scales, arpeggios, auxiliary notes and repeated notes only
• Finishes with a ii-V-I cadence

The passage MUST include:

• a tonic pedal (Use some of I , ii, IV, V⁷ and vii over it)
• some parallel thirds and/or sixths
• some octave unison

You can use other ideas but they must be taken from the models provided (in the Allegro folder above)

Performance (due Monday 12th December)

Write your reflection on the second page of the document (in the folder in the last topic on Moodle) and upload it onto Moodle. There is no need to complete your programme at this stage.

Notes (due for first day of new term on Moodle)

Download the “Notes on Development of Symphony Template” from Moodle and fill it in as follows:

In the General Notes add brief notes under the following separate headings (you can use homeworks, notes, readings on Moodle and internet research to help you)

• Minuet (characteristics and how it developed into Scherzo)
• Development of the Orchestra (Corelli, Stamitz, Haydn, Beethoven and later Romantic – you can use Minuets we have studied as examples)
• Humour in Haydn (adapt your essay into bullet pointed notes)

You should also make brief notes on the following composers in the Composer Notes tables:Stamitz, Filtz, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky

Composition (for end of day on Friday 2nd December)
Set last week – due this Friday.

Symphony (due Monday 5th December)
In the General Readings folder on Moodle for the Symphony please read “CMG Haydn”. You can also read any of the Taruskin Haydn articles if you wish and do some research on the internet. You need to make brief notes on his personal and professional life and write down FIVE interesting facts to bring to class on Monday.

Composition (for end of day on Friday 2nd December)

1. Improve your minuet composition according to the feedback
2. Make sure that you have a proper chromatic chord modulation and that you have at least one more interesting chord in your dominant pedal section (see file in Minuet Composition Files)
3. Consider the tempo, particularly if you have just used the default – might it be better slower or faster?
4. Add LOTS of dynamics and articulations to the melody (at least as much as in the Haydn Symphony 104 that we are studying)
5. Using the models we looked at in class (in the Minuet Composition Files folder on Moodle) rework the texture for string quartet, again using lots of dynamics and articulations. You need a variety of textures but do not make it TOO complicated and DO NOT make up your own very complex textures.

Extension task (do one or the other )

EITHER write a trio to go with this Minuet OR re-orchestrate along the lines of one of the orchestration tasks completed a few weeks ago (Stamitz, Filtz or Haydn).

Essay (Wednesday 30th)

Write a short essay on humour in the minuet and trio with reference to three other works by Haydn.

Revision (for Monday 28th November)

On Monday there will be a brief test on your knowledge (using blank scores) of the Haydn, a set of questions on an unfamiliar piece, and a short question exploring a topic that we have covered (i.e. humour or orchestration). There is an annotated score on Moodle.

Composition (for Tuesday 22nd end of day on Moodle)

A :|| (Modulating Period) – 8 bars

• Four bars ending on an imperfect cadence (I to V)
• Four bars ending on a perfect cadence in the dominant key using one of the following progressions for bars 6-8:
  • Diminished seventh onto | V6/4-5/3 | I
    (note two chords in penultimate bar)
  • Secondary dominant onto | ii6-V | I
    (note two chords in penultimate bar)

 ||: B (A’) :|| – 16 bars

• Four bars of iii-vi-ii-V back in home key
• Four bars of Dominant pedal (four bars)
• Eight bars of non-modulating period (as A but without the modulation in the second half)

Please simplify your quartet texture so that all three lower parts simply sustain the harmonies (we will work on the texture in a final part of this task next week).

Musical Theatre (for Wednesday 23rd by the end of the day on Moodle)
Please complete a set of research notes on Word that should run to at least a couple of pages. You will need to read at least the Rodgers and Hammerstein (Sears) and Oklahoma! (Kenrick) but you might also find the more general stuff useful. 

Your research notes should summarise the historical position of Rodgers and Hammerstein, their main innovations, their most important works together and include detailed reference to at least three songs (scores and tracks of some are on Moodle but there is loads on Youtube also).