Summer TO DO list

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• Sign up to this blog (follow link also to our Facebook page)
• Complete performance initial proposals for your first lesson
• Complete Short History of Music tasks (Short History of Music)
• Brush up on your basic theory (keys, chords, intervals and basic reading)
• Make sure you have arranged weekly instrumental or vocal lessons either with us or privately (forms available here)
• Make sure you instrument is in good working order

If you have lost your pack, you can find one here:

You must …

Review Essay topics A-G

Key Resources Year 12 Revision BookletMoodle: A Level Music Common Resources (quizzes and notes)99 Revision Questions (on Moodle)www.alevelmusic.com Scores and AoS A and E Workbooks

Review and make notes on topics A-F (the best review is a combination of reading and listening to relevant excerpts on www.alevelmusic.com alongside making bullet pointed lists both by topic and by symphony from memory and then checking them). You should also write at least one full essay on a topic of your choice.

A) Overall form
B) First movements / Sonata form
C) Second movements / slow movements
D) Third movements / Minuets
E) Fourth movements / Finales
F) Development of the orchestra
G) Development of harmony and tonality

Review the Haydn

• Listen and check the annotations on your score
• Do at least 10 questions spread across movements taken from 1-40 of 99 Revision Questions on Moodle
• Do at least one Moodle quiz on each movement

Review the Debussy:

• Listen with your annotated score
• Check and review your annotations and notes
• Do at least four questions from 54-61 of 99 Revision Questions on Moodle
• Do at least two Moodle quizzes

Review the Ravel and Webern Core Wider Listening pieces

• Review the notes
• Listen to them with the scores (page 10 and page 40 in your AoS E Workbook / )

You could …

• Listen to Poulenc AoS E set work (and read notes on Moodle)
• Listen to Mendelssohn Italian Symphony
• Listen to a range of relevant twentieth century works, starting with the following, to increase your familiarity with the three focus styles:

Impressionism

Debussy – ‘Sarabande’ (1894), Prelude a l’apres midi d’un faune (1894), ‘Voiles’ (1909)

Ravel – String Quartet (1903) Rapsodie Espangnole (1908)

Expressionism and Serialism

Schoenberg – Ewartung (1909), Pierrot Lunaire (1912), Variations for Orchestra (1928)

Berg – Wozzeck (1922) Violin Concerto (1935)

Webern – Six Bagatelles (1913) , Quartet Op. 22 (1930)

Neo-Classicism

Prokofiev – Classical Symphony (1917), Violin Concerto No. 2 (1935)

Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite (1922), Concerto for Piano and Winds (1924)

Poulenc – Sonata for Trumpet, Horn and Trombone (1924)

Area of Study E

In the w/c 1st July (in the Thursday/Friday single) there will be a test consisting of the following:

1. Short answer analysis questions on Debussy Nuages (with blank score)
2. Listening questions on an UNSEEN piece of music
3. 5-mark explanation of ONE aspect of Ravel String Quartet (see notes given out in class – if you’ve lost them they are in the year 13 revision booklet on Moodle)

Composition

Put together TWO of your sketches into the opening of a piece that runs continuously

AoS A

• Essay on Overall Form in the last week of term (in Double lesson on Tue/Thur)

Composition

Please upload ALL THREE compositions to Moodle by the end of Monday (A Group) / Wednesday (B Group)

Timed Essay

Essay on Harmony and Tonality in DOUBLE LESSON next week

Composition
Write a pentatonic extract for any combination of instruments. I am interested in ATMOSPHERE and GESTURE and you must only use 12356 of a major scale

There are notes and examples here: https://alevelmusic.com/alevelcompositionhelp/3-composition-into-the-c20/new-scales/

History
If you have it, read the Into the Twentieth Century chapter of the Rhinegold Study Guide

Revision sessions (all sessions are 90 minutes)

Session 1: Wednesday 22nd May 10.30 / Thursday 23rd 12.30

Session 2: Wednesday 5th June 10.30 / Thursday 6th 12.30

Session 3: Wednesday 12th June 10.30 / Thursday 13th 12.30

Year 13 Music Student Picnic: Friday 14th 3.30 in Mary Stevens

Please make sure you:

• Complete the 99 Revision Questions (on Music Resources Moodle under Year 13 revision)
• Do plenty of Moodle review quizzes
• Re-do some dictation (also in the Year 13 revision folder)
• Make your own notes on key symphonic repertoire (as well as by topic) and LISTEN to the excerpts (and even better whole symphonies)
• Read the Exam tips on Moodle
• Practice basic essay topics without notes (then check them afterwards)
• Practice using MITS on random musical theatre repertoire
• Listen to plenty of music by AoS E composers to help you recognise their style

ACTIVE revision little and often is best – look at a topic then answer the relevant bits of the 99 Revision Questions and/or do Moodle Quizzes. Writing essays or notes from memory is better than reading notes.

ANY PROBLEMS OR QUESTIONS? ASK – I’m at the other end of an email as well as being in college anyway. I’m happy to meet up for extra sessions as needed.

Don’t forget your performance assessments next week check the schedule:

Composition deadlines (internal assessment):

• Friday 10th of May – FINAL DRAFT FOR FEEDBACK
• Wednesday 22nd of May – FINAL SUBMISSION

Internal exam (Tuesday 14th or Thursday 16th May)

Your revision booklets outline what will be in this exam. Essay topics will be B to F inclusive (i.e. NOT A or G )

Composition Submission THIS FRIDAY

CHECKLIST (please note that you must have the files in a folder on your H drive called “Music Unit 2 Submission” with the filenames exactly as on the check list)

Some other things to remember:

• For your logbook, please remember to delete red text and paragraph numbers
• Get rid of silly titles and put on sensible ones
• chord labels are on the whole unnecessary
• make sure instruments are correctly labelled on the score and have short labels thoughout
• where you have two flutes or horns etc. make sure that it is clear whether one or both play at each point

Mock next week:

D group

• Tuesday 7th: Musical Theatre and Dictation
• Wednesday Double : AoS E Haydn Short Answer and Essay Question on Dev. of Symphony.

C group

• Tuesday 7th : Musical Theatre and Dictation
• Wednesday 8th : AoS E
• Thursday: 9th Haydn Short Answer and Essay Question on Dev. of Symphony

Don’t forget your REHEARSAL (Chambers), WARM-UP (in the Band Room 15 minutes before) and ASSESSMENTS starting FRIDAY this week.

Next week there will be a mock exam as follows:

D group

• TUESDAY: Musical Theatre and Dictation
• Wednesday Double : AoS E Haydn Short Answer and Essay Question on Dev. of Symphony.

C group

• Tuesday: Musical Theatre and Dictation
• Wednesday : AoS E
• Thursday: Haydn Short Answer and Essay Question on Dev. of Symphony

Composition

All work must be in on Moodle by the end of Friday. If you do not have assessments but you want to work on your composition in the study room on that day, you are welcome to do so.

Please submit both Sibelius scores, Log and Cover sheets.