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The focus this week is on COMPOSITION.
You must have finished all the main sections to your piece (A, B and C) ready for hand in on Tuesday 1st / Wednesday 2nd on Moodle.
Remember your C section needs to be contrasting in key, texture and thematically. Look at models on A level music and Moodle to get ideas, but the main model is Haydn Symphony No. 2
Music: score
Audio:
Another possible model is Bach Op. 18 No. 4
Friday 27th April Final Composition Deadline
Please upload finished work into FINAL SUBMISSION folder on Moodle for admin checks. Please check that you have submitted all of the following for all your pieces.
1) PDF of score (please put a copy of the original Sibelius file on your H drive in a folder called “Music Unit 2 Submission”)
2) Sibelius file AUDIO VERSION (you should export it to a WAV file and put it on your H drive in a folder called “Music Unit 2 Submission”).
3) Coversheet in PDF format
4) Final version of log IN WORD FORMAT
Please complete one of each of the main quiz types (i.e. on on each movement of the Haydn and one each on Poulenc and Debussy)
WCT
If you have already made some good revision notes this won’t take you too long! Please copy the Topic Threads notes (there is a word document version) and add notes on each of the symphonies that are offered as examples using the development of the symphony notes on alm to help you (Topics A-H). Revise these notes ready to write a timed essay when you get back.
Revision
On Moodle you will find a Revision Booklet for the material you need to cover for the Internal Exam. You will receive hard copies of this at the beginning of term.
WCT
Please prepare for a timed essay in class on Tuesday, which could be on any one the following topics
Revise using the Topic threads for 15-mark essay notes on Moodle plus the detailed notes on Alevelmusic on Development of the Symphony
B) First movements / Sonata form
C) Second movements / slow movements
D) Third movements / Minuets
F) Development of the orchestra
Definitely NOT fourth movements
WCT AND AoS E Revision
Composition
Make sure there is real progress this week please – hand in on FRIDAY on Moodle
REMEMBER: programmes (form here) and accompaniments are due in this FRIDAY
WCT
Composition (DRAFT Thursday 29th March / FINAL Friday 25th May)
Start your Internal Composition Assessment for first hand in on Wednesday 21st (B) or Thursday 22nd (D)
Don’t forget the COMPOSING HUB
Brief: Internal Assessment Composing Brief
Logs: LOG (Rondo) / LOG (Incidental)
Haydn Rondo from Symph 2: SCORE
Track:
Andante / Second movement Theme (Tuesday 13th/ Wednesday 14th March)
Write a slow movement theme (Andante or a bit slower) that follows the same basic outline of the Haydn:
Small ternary
Please use the links from the Composing Hub to help you .
WCT Revision
AoS E revision
Please use the annotated score on Moodle (Common Resources) to update and complete the annotations of your own score. I will check them next week in the lesson on THURSDAY.
Essay (due Friday 9th March in the lesson)
Write an essay on the following topic: “Discuss development of symphonic first movements in the Western Classical Tradition from 1750-1900”
Your essay should have the following structure:
Use the topic threads notes on the A level Common Resources Moodle alongside the Development of the Symphony Notes to help you write this essay.