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Year 12 HW w/c 10th Sept.
Homework for next week (A group set Thursday due Monday / B group set Friday due Tuesday)
Write a two bar basic idea using this worksheet (please do it on a separate sheet so I can take it in)
Notes:
- you should have multiple tries until you come up with a really good idea
- make sure the the notes of the melody are either part of the chord or one of the dissonances listed here
- ensure bar 2 is closely based on bar 1
- use plenty of dynamics and articulation
As of Wednesday evening:
- A group should have finished everything up to and including Exercise B1 in the Starting Points booklet
- B group should have finished everything up to and including Exercise A2 the Starting Points booklet
Remember to book CBSO concerts on ParentMail.
A Level Results 2018, 2019 & 2022
A level results 2022
| Grade | Cumulative percentage |
| A | 72% including two A*s |
| B | 83% |
| C | 90% |
A level results 2018
| Grade | Cumulative percentage |
| A | 38% including two A*s |
| B | 77% |
| C | 92% |
A level results 2019
| Grade | Cumulative percentage |
| A | 31% including three A*s |
| B | 52% |
| C | 91% |
All years pass rate: 100%
Previous results
Summer Homework
When you start year 13 in September, we will have three tests that you need to prepare for over the summer
- Development of the Symphony topics A-E – this is the foundational stuff that we will build on for the remaining essay titles (next FRIDAY – not Thursday as I said to C group)
- Haydn short answer (WEDNESDAY)
- Poulenc short answer (to make sure it is still in your brains after the summer break before we start on Debussy) (WEDNESDAY)
There are revision aids on Moodle (I am currently re-organizing the quizzes) and notes both there and on here. I would practice making notes for the Dev. of the Symphony and then test yourself to see if you have got them right.
Welcome!
Welcome to our new students.
I set some tasks over the summer for those students who came to our Welcome to College day. For those students, I would like to take in your work on your first lessons NEXT week on Monday 10th (A group) / Tuesday 11th (group) :
If you have lost your induction pack or were not at the Welcome to College days you can download one here: Induction Pack. Do you best to get at least the Initial Performance Programme form done and get some of the Short History of Music task completed.
- Sign up to our blog on alevelmusic.com (you can also follow the links to Twitter and Facebook)
- Give the letter to your parent/guardian(s)
- Put dates in your diary from that letter
- Make sure you have organized instrumental vocal lessons (email tom.pankhurst@kedst.ac.uk urgently if you need to organize college lessons)
- Complete Performance initial proposals for your first music lesson
- Complete the Short History of Music tasks for your first music lesson (the links you need are here)
worries – email Tom Pankhurst (tom.pankhurst@kedst.ac.uk)
Homework until end of term (year 12)
This is the homework that needs doing by the end of term (my two groups are at different points in the different bits but we should all be there by next week!)
Composition (all uploaded by the end of term)
NOTE: you are not required to put all your C20 sketches together into a piece, but you may if you wish – ask me if you want advice
- Pentatonic sketch
- Octatonic sketch
- Whole tone sketch
- Serial sketch (a link to some notes on Serialism here)
- 32-bar song form sketch
Twentieth century
- Annotate and revise Poulenc for a test on Friday 6th July (revision notes / annotated score – password protected on Moodle)
- Listen to and read about the Debussy Voiles Core Piece 1 (notes on Moodle as well as tracks) before you complete the comparison table in the booklet
Year 12 HW
Music Theatre Composition
Music Theatre Composition Brief
- First submission – Friday 22nd June
- Second submission – Friday 6th July
- Final submission – Thursday 12th July
C20 Composition
Pentatonic sketch (pentatonic notes)
Deadline: B group Wednesday 13th January / D group Tuesday 19th January
Octatonic sketch (octatonic notes)
Whole-tone sketch (whole-tone notes)
Year 12 HW w/c 4th June
Pentatonic sketch
Due on Moodle by end of Wednesday 13th (B group) / end of 14th Thursday (D Group)
Write a sketch of around 12-15 bars using only notes of ONE pentatonic scale (C would be CDEGA). IT can be generally atmospheric or have a clear melody and accompaniment. You can write for any combination but then will be stuck with that ensemble for all your sketches.
Year 12 HW w/c 10 May
Essay or other format (due in next Wed / Thur)
Please either write an essay or do a poster/leaflet on the development of harmony and tonality that we covered in class
Composition
Before next week you need to
- roughly complete your piece (i.e. ABCABA running continuously – the final ABA can be identical to the first)
- put in any missing WCT – come to a workshop if you can’t manage this
- fill in the log again including the first and second pages this time please
Year 13 HW
Please write the following essay:
“Discuss the development of the finale in the symphony from 1750-1900”
Please note that in class we discussed the list on the topic notes for this and REMOVED J.C. Bach but ADDED Tchaikovsky 6.
Your essay should discuss some earlier examples then Haydn 104 in detail then some later examples.
Year 12 HW w/c 30th April
Composition
The focus this week is on making sure you have the WCT features included in your piece. Please submit the appropriate log (LOG (Rondo) / LOG (Incidental) with the WCT features table filled in (including bar numbers so I can locate them)
Essay
Please write the following essay:
“Discuss the development of the finale in the symphony from 1750-1900”
Please note that in class we discussed the list on the topic notes for this and REMOVED J.C. Bach but ADDED Tchaikovsky 6.
Your essay should discuss some earlier examples then Haydn 104 in detail then some later examples.