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Year 13 Homework w/c 12th September
Applied
B Group (for Friday 23rd ): Please read “Auric Intro” in the relevant Moodle folder. If you are feeling keen you could also take a look at the next document – ‘Les Six’.
D Group: Not yet set
Instrumental
For next week please read and make brief notes on “Corelli and the Baroque” which you can find in the relevant folder on Moodle.
Composition
Please choose a brief, make a plan and find a key piece or couple of pieces that will be a reference point for style, structure etc. Briefs are on the Composition Moodle.
Chorale
B Group (for Friday 23rd ): Finish Worksheet 1
D Group: Not yet set
Year 12 Homework w/c 12th September
Work due for WEDNESDAY 14th
1) Complete Exercises A1 and A3 in the Starting Points handbook. If you need any help please make sure you come to the drop-in workshop at 12:45 on Tuesday in the music room
2) Please bring your Short History of Music completed tasks to hand in
Work due for next MONDAY 19th
1) Complete Exercises A4 and A5 in the Starting Points Booklet
2) Please redo Exercise B2 from scratch on the separate sheet provided. Please note the following:
- Check carefully that all dissonances are one of the standard listed types
- Keep it simple
- Make sure that the second bar is clearly based on the first
- Do not write an accompaniment – the bass stave is just for jotting down the chords.
A Level Results 2016 & 2017
A2 Results 2016
Students achieving A-B 72%
Students achieving at least a C 100%
A2 Results 2017
Students achieving A-B 48%
Students achieving at least a C 90%
A2 Summer Homework
Applied
Complete the attached task for the first lesson back in September. You need to create a table/list filling in the information and then write a short essay. You can use the resources on Moodle to help you. Please feel free to email for clarification.
A2 Homework (w/c 27th June)
Composition
Please write TWO Allegro themes that follow this structure:
- Presentation (2 bars of basic idea / 2 bars of repetition with different harmony)
- Fragmentation and cadence (4 bars that begin with an idea from the presentation fragmented and sequenced and end with a perfect or imperfect cadence)
New Year 12 Students (summer tasks)
| Sign up to this blog | |
| Go through the list of key dates with your parents/guardians and make sure they are in diaries | |
| Complete Performance initial proposals for your first music lesson | |
| Complete the Short History of Music tasks for your first music lesson | |
| Brush up on your basic theory: | |
| · Keys | |
| · Chords | |
| · Intervals | |
| Buy a ring binder | |
| Buy a pack of dividers (at least 10) | |
| Make sure your instrument is in good working order | |
| Make sure you have signed up for instrumental or vocal lessons at college or you have arranged weekly lessons with a private teacher approved by the college. | |
A2 Homework (w/c 13th June)
Composition
Please complete a melody in the form of a period either on Sibelius or manuscript paper (Due FRIDAY for B group and MONDAY for D group)
It needs to:
- have the harmony indicated (and bass line if you wish)
- follow the structure AA’ (where A ends on V and A’ ends on I)
- follow the harmonic guidelines on the back of the brief
Applied
Not yet set
AS Students …
Phew – you are done. Your homework is to do other stuff until I see you after exam leave!
Preparing for a A2 exam …
Listening
Make sure that you are really familiar (which I am sure you are) with GSMIRTH categories and that you have read the tips in the handbook for answering questions. You need to be strategic, writing down everything as you hear it. Keep answers simple, detailed and technical, making sure that you describe sequences of events (e.g. first the cellos have a tonic pedal then the horns enter playing a rising arpeggo).
There are plenty of spare listening tests on Moodle – make sure you do them and come to revision sessions to keep your skills fresh
Applied
You need to make 10 points to get full marks, bearing in mind the following:
- Stick to core points (discussed in the revision notes) not made up peripheral ones
- All your points should be about bar-numbered features of the score
- Briefly relate each point back to the question
- Use technical language correctly (e.g. chromatic/dissonant) and succinctly
- Write a short introduction explaining the question and setting out the terms of your answer (e.g. Expressionist composers wanted to break free of the conventions of musical language in order to convey emotions more directly and intensely)
Preparing for the exam …
Listening to the music with heavily annotated scores is the best form of revision both for Question 1 and also for Question 3 – scores should be annotated from your revision notes AND those on Moodle (particularly in the case of vocal works, which are not in the main revision booklet).
You need to make sure you have learnt thoroughly the following:
For Question 3 …
- Standard comparison questions (and regularly reviewed answers to them)
- The content needed for Context questions (including making sure you are ready for variants of the Tippett and Webern questions)
- Basic facts about all the pieces (keys, metre, structure etc.)
For Question 5 …
- Cadence fingerprints
- Method for completing harmony
- Double SLAP
For Question 4 …
- Standard embellishments
- Different types of chords and cadences