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Year 12 Homework w/c 2nd April
Next week we have a TIMED ESSAY on Monday 8th (A) / Tuesday 9th (B) on symphonic SECOND (slow) movements.
Also next week you need to hand in for composition by the end of THURSDAY 11th:
- a completed rough draft of your Rondo (at least ABA’CABA’)
- a log sheet that documents your use of the 10 WCT Fingerprints (see file below)
Year 13 homework w/c 1st April
Performances
NEXT WEEK! Keep practising, performing and listening! Check that you definitely have the correct times for rehearsals, warm-up and assessment in your diary. Remember that you are permitted to bring and audience should you wish to do so
Composition
Please submit whatever you have worked on and anything that is NOT finished.
If your compositions are pretty much done, you should work on your log / coversheets (links on Moodle)
WCT
We will have a short answer quiz on the second movement plus some work on other movements this week.
Year 13 w/c 25th March
Performance EXAMS in TWO WEEKS – it is 35% of your final mark so, no excuses, you need to be practising really hard for the next two weeks.
Concentrate on:
- Recording yourself play all the way through pieces so you can hear where the problems are
- Focused, slow repetitive practice of tricky corners
- Tone and intonation exercises and making sure you stamina is at a peak
- Listening to recordings to get inspiration and to make sure you know how your part fits in with the piano part.
- Mark things on your music that will help you play well
Exam work
- Timed essay on ALL TOPICS A-I this Wednesday
- Unseen AoS E listening (you need to review Core Wider Listening works for this)
Year 12 HW w/c 25th March
Compositions
This week you need to submit correction to your A section, a B section sketch and a reworked A section that finishes in the tonic to round of the first ABA’
Due Monday (A) / Wednesday (B)
For NEXT week (Monday 1st / Wednesday 3rd) I want correction plus a C section
AoS A
I will check scores in the DOUBLE lesson next week to see that students are using Moodle notes and class notes to annotate their scores fully. They should have at LEAST as much as my annotated scores on Moodle. You should by then have completed Movements I, II and III. You will have to come to several tedious score annotating ‘detentions’ if you have not done this.
We will have a short answer quiz on the Haydn SECOND movement next week on Monday/Tuesday.
Looking ahead a little further, we will have an ESSAY on second movements on the Monday/Tuesday of the w/c 8th (last week of term)
Year 12 w/c 18th March
Composition: Submit A section
Wondering what to do? Go back to the Rondo from Haydn 2 for inspiration:
- A group end of TUESDAY (moved from Monday)
- B group end of THURSDAY
Note: this week there is no lesson on MONDAY for A group so I will squeeze this in on Tuesday.
Year 13 w/c 18th March
This week: mock question on Poulenc/Debussy and review of Haydn 4th Mov. and Mendelssohn Essay topics
I want to see EVERYONE’s Composition 1 this week please
Next week: mock unseen listening questions (C20), review of Movement 2 and essay topics J-L
Schedule this week:
- C GROUP (composition submission THURSDAY)
- Tuesday: Mock question on Debussy/Poulenc
- Wednesday: STUDY DAY
- Thursday: Mendelssohn essay topics review / Haydn First movement
- Friday: Musical Theatre
- D GROUP (composition submission TUESDAY)
- Tuesday: Mock question on Debussy/Poulenc PLUS Haydn First movement review
- Wednesday: STUDY DAY
- Friday: Mendelssohn essay topics review PLUS Musical Theatre
Year 13 Homework (w/c 11th March)
- Please submit Composition on TUESDAY (Group D) / Thursday (Group C), clearly stating what you would like me to give feedback on
For THIS WEEK
- Timed Essay on Topics F-I (WEDNESDAY)
- Debussy Revision
- Haydn Movement 3
For NEXT WEEK
- Mendelssohn Essay Topics
- Haydn Movement 4
- Prepare Core Wider Listening Works for Mock Question
Year 12 Homework w/c 11th March
PERFORMANCE PAPERWORK DUE IN WEDNESDAY
From last week
– make sure you have submitted your Storm and Love Theme on Moodle
– listen to the Andante movement from the Haydn with the score at least twice
Internal Composition Assessment
You need to write your first section in draft and hand it by the end of Monday (A) / Wednesday (B) next week.
Year 12 Homework w/c 26th February
Composition (for the end of NEXT week – 8th March)
Write a sketch for orchestra (at least Haydn 104 size but can be larger) that depicts part of a storm.
You must include at least two of the storm features listed here on the ‘Storm Features’ page
AoS A (for next week’s double lesson – please bring to the lesson)
Find a programmatic piece by a Romantic composer and make brief notes as follows:
- summary of composer (dates, key pieces, key facts)
- summary of piece (date, what is it about etc.)
- one extract from the piece (a Youtube clip or similar) and what you think is particularly interesting or effective about the music (orchestration, harmony etc.)
Year 13 Half term homework
Composition
Fill out the composition log as fully as you can. I will take it in on Moodle at the end of the first Monday back after half term. If you know you are behind in composition – please do get some extra material written for your second pieces etc.
Performance
Lots of practice. Look at the video from the Showcase, make some notes on what you could improve. Remember playing live is a visual as well as an aural experience!
Exam revision and review
There will be a timed essay on any of topics A-E in the first week back. So please review your notes and practice making bullet-pointed plans without notes and writing first paragraphs. You need to know about Haydn and Mendelssohn as well as wider listening.