Revision

This is obviously your main priority. You need to revise:

• Debussy and Poulenc set works
• Ravel, Webern and Poulenc core wider listening
• Make sure you are familiar with the focus styles of serialism/expressionism, impressionism and neo-classicism
• Haydn all movements
• Wider listening symphonies INCLUDING Mendelssohn
• Essay topic A-G

Revision booklet provided in hard copy and also here

Patronage and Commission

Please complete this research task C Group / D Group by the end of the exam period

Development of the Symphony

Complete the reading and research task on First movements (Topic B) on Google Classroom (due first lesson back in January)

Composition

Make sure you sort Sibelius at home so you can make your corrections on Project 6 so far in response to the feedback given. Also due in first day back please.

Please do the Virtual Carols ASAP! Thanks

Composition

Please complete the compound period and tonic noise started in class and hand in on GC by the end of MONDAY. Just for String Quartet for the moment.

Review of Haydn work

Please complete the review tasks on Google Classroom (available from Thursday evening)

Composition (submit on GC by Friday 27th)

Please complete the remaining bars (see booklet for instructions):

1) Augmented sixth in bar onto dominant pedal in bar 15 (already written) 2) Circle of fifths from 10-13 (back in your HOME key). Write the first two bars then sequence exactly – don’t make it any more complicated
3) Write a bar that leads nicely into your circle of fifths in bar 9
4) Rewrite your A section so that it doesn’t modulate (so from the s.d. onwards it is all down a fifth) and put that as the last eight bars

Preparation for assessments (on Thursday 3rd)

• Complete review tasks on Haydn movement 3 (Revision then Revision Test on Google Classroom)
• Use your notes to prepare for essay on Topic D (third movements)

Composition submission (Friday 27th)

Please submit your work and you MUST UPDATE YOUR LOG indicating what you have done so that I can concentrate on those things that have changed.

Test Preparation

Revision booklet here (hard copy to follow)

Wednesday 2nd December – Short Answer test on movements 1 and 2 of the Haydn AND short answer test on Debussy

Wednesday 9th December – Essay test on movement 3 OR 4 AND Short Answer test on movements 3 and 4 of the Haydn

Composition (by Friday)

Correct modulating period AND add the dominant pedal in bars 15-18 (on Classroom)

Review (for Tuesday)

Haydn 104 review task on here on Google Classroom

Symphony Essays review task on here on Google Classroom

AoS A Timed Essay (Wednesday 18th)

Please revise for a test on ONE of first and second movement essay topics (including Mendelssohn – see notes posted on Google Classroom)

Composition

Please take the time to make some real progress on this and keep updating your log (linked to on your half term assessment PA1). Due in Wednesday/Friday next week,

Poulenc

Please revise for a topic test on Wednesday.

Composition (Monday 9th)

Please complete the Minuet Orchestration task on Google Classroom

Haydn 104 (Tuesday 10th)

Please compete the Minuet Review Task.

AoS A Development of Symphony Essay (by lesson on Thursday 11th)

Please do the research task. Read, listen, make some notes then upload them for the four symphonies requested in Topic D