Remember to revise of Topic A/H for hybrid timed essay for this week

AoS E Revision

Revise the Core Wider listening works from the C20 ready for a test next week (Tuesday/Wednesday)

Work set last week for this week

Composition – dominant pedal for minuet – see last week for detailed instructions

Work set for next week

Composition – B section (blank 6 bars – can be anything from 4-12 bars)

Do corrections and DEVELOP TEXTURE (i.e. adapt some of the simple textures you have to fit to the models offered here: minuet textures)

Start in the relative minor (or that of the dominant – see below)

There are TWO main options

1.Write a melodic idea (either based on your original or not) and then sequence down a tone (like the in the Trio of Stamitz LMG) OR

2.Write a brief circle of fifths round to the dominant (if you want to go a bit further then start B section in relative minor of dominant)

THEN you need to arrive on the dominant pedal you have either written. You should either

1.land on your dominant pedal from an augmented sixth a semitone above it OR

2.land on V FIRST then add in an augmented sixth that resolves onto your dominant pedal

Essay revision

Make notes on Topic D (Third movements). Use Essay Topic Summary (D)this handout as the basis for your notes and use the development of the symphony pages to do your research. In the end you will have to write a short essay on how third movements have developed in the history of the symphony, with some examples taken from all periods and a short paragraph on Haydn 104. We will have a brief discussion on this topic in the first single lesson of next week and a timed essay in the first double.

Homework from last week

Essay Homework – due Monday (A) / Tuesday (B)

Write a short essay on the development of the orchestra in symphonic music from 1750-1900. Use the list of pieces on the organiser given out in class to guide your research on the development of the symphony web page.  You could also read the introductory section of the Rhinegold Study Guide.

Your essay must then be structured as followed, keeping symphonies in chronological order:

• Introduction (include explanation of basso continuo and transition from Baroque to Classical)
• Explain a few examples of early Classical pieces
• Brief mention of Haydn 104 (you can look at the score and notes on Moodle in the Year 12 Revision guide). You should use this as an example of the mature classical orchestra but mention the restrictions of natural brass etc.
• Explain a few examples of early and then late Romantic pieces
• Brief conclusion pointing out the major changes.

Work set for next week
Composition

• Correct your 8-bar modulating period according to feedback and then add a quartet texture taken from the simple quartet textures on the WCT Hub. This will be the FIRST eight bars of your piece
• For the LAST eight bars of your piece you need to rewrite the period so that it has no secondary dominant and does not modulate. Make sure you finish with an idiomatic cadence like I6/4 V I or ii6 – V – I and end on the FIRST beat of the EIGHTH bar
• For at least four bars before this write a dominant pedal that will lead into it you must use some of the dissonant and chromatic harmonies discussed in class (from the WCT Fingerprints page)
• Leave a gap of six bars or so before, so the whole structure will be:
  • Modulating period
  • 6 blank bars
  • dominant pedal with harmonies over it
  • Modified non modulating period

Performance
Forms (Performance Programme Submission), music and accompaniments are due THIS FRIDAY

Review 

• Topic H) Humour, drama, narrative and programme. (notes and stuff on alevelmusic)
• Haydn 104 first movement

Review for NEXT WEEK

• Timed essay on how the incorporation of drama and narrative affected the overall form of the Symphony (Friday for both groups)
• Haydn 104 second movement

Composition
Hand in initial sketches (or reworked material from last year) this week on Moodle please.

Don’t neglect Composition 1 – a finished draft is due at the end of term (I will be doing a session of developments this week to help people get this section finished)

Essay Homework – due Monday (A) / Tuesday (B)

Write a short essay on the development of the orchestra in symphonic music from 1750-1900. Use the list of pieces on the organiser given out in class to guide your research on the development of the symphony web page.  You could also read the introductory section of the Rhinegold Study Guide.

Your essay must then be structured as followed, keeping symphonies in chronological order:

• Introduction (include explanation of basso continuo and transition from Baroque to Classical)
• Explain a few examples of early Classical pieces
• Brief mention of Haydn 104 (you can look at the score and notes on Moodle in the Year 12 Revision guide). You should use this as an example of the mature classical orchestra but mention the restrictions of natural brass etc.
• Explain a few examples of early and then late Romantic pieces
• Brief conclusion pointing out the major changes.

Getting on with composition is the major priority. You need to have finished a draft of your Composition 1 by the end of this term and done some substantial sketches for composition 2.

Please don’t neglect planning and preparing for your recital. For most of you this is 35% of your marks. If you are not prepared, it will be pretty disastrous. Finalized programmes and due in in a few weeks along with accompaniments.

Work for next week

AoS A – please review your notes on humour and revise Haydn movement 1 for short answer questions during the lesson on Wednesday C / Friday D next week.

Composition Homework (due on Moodle by end of Monday 12th for A group and Wednesday 14th for B group)

1. Complete the three orchestrations of the Haydn Minuet (Stamitz, Filtz, Haydn 104). You will find the Sibelius and other files you need on Moodle here
2. Write an 8 bar minuet opening phrase. It should be
   • in a string quartet score but with just a melody, bass line in the cello and chord labels
   • in 3/4
   • in a major key
   • a period
   • modulate to the dominant in the second half of the phrase

It will go like this: