Summary for work for this week

For the lessons in college you will need your DEBUSSY scores please.

If you have got behind – PLEASE make sure you catch up now while there is time.

Coming up
This week: performances, Haydn short answer on movements 2 & 3,
Final week (mon./tue. only): timed essay on overall form (Topic A), mini test on AoS E, mini musical theatre test, deadline for serial composition sketch and film cue sketch

Into the C20 (AoS E)

• Complete Debussy Nuages Revision Worksheet (on Google Classroom)
• Composition Task. You need to complete the Serial composition – there is a video on it here. The basic task is to generate a matrix (set of serial rows – generator here) and then to use the pitches to write a piece. See brief on Google Classroom.

WCT AoS A

• Short answer test on Haydn movements 2 and 3. Will ONLY be available on WEDNESDAY.
• Complete your research for essay on overall form (Topic A). There will be a video to help you consolidate later in the week

Also there is the virtual concert choir piece to do here and your practical work to prepare for NEXT WEEK.

Summary for work for this week

For the lessons in college you will need your DEBUSSY scores please.

If you have got behind – PLEASE make sure you catch up now while there is time.

Coming up
This week: Haydn short answer on movements 1 & 4, deadline for octatonic and whole tone composition sketches
Next week: performances, Haydn short answer on movements 2 & 3,
Final week (mon./tue. only): timed essay on overall form, mini test on AoS E, mini musical theatre test, deadline for serial composition sketch and film cue sketch

Into the C20 (AoS E)

• Complete Debussy Worksheet 4 (on Google Classroom)
• Wider Listening Worksheet (now on Google Classroom)
• Composition Tasks (for this Friday on Google Classroom). The octatonic sketch set last week (make sure you have looked at the . notes and watched the video) PLUS you need to do a whole tone sketch. Both in for this Friday. The whole-tone one is very much like the pentatonic. Stick to the correct scale and concentrate on rhythm, colour and texture to make it interesting.

WCT AoS A

• Short answer test on Haydn movements 1 and 4. Will ONLY be available on WEDNESDAY.
• Start doing your research for overall form symphony topic. There will be a video to help you consolidate next week

Musical Theatre Aos C

• Set THURSDAY

Also there is the virtual concert choir piece to do here and your practical work to prepare for NEXT WEEK.

Summary for work for this week

For the lessons in college over the next three weeks you will need your DEBUSSY scores please

Into the C20 (AoS E)

• Watch this video on octatonic scales
• Complete Debussy Worksheet 3 (on Google Classroom)
• Wider Listening Worksheet (on Google Classroom)
• Composition Task (for NEXT Friday). Write a short (i.e. 12 or so bars) octatonic sketch. You need to have a look at the examples here for inspiration and watch the video above.

WCT AoS A

• Dictation (on Google Classroom)
• Complete essay in timed conditions on WEDNESDAY (on Google Classroom). You can either handwrite and scan or type.

Musical Theatre Aos C

• Set THURSDAY

Also there is the virtual concert choir piece to do here and your practical work to prepare.

This week I am trialling putting everything on Google Classroom. I don’t want to get left in the dark ages of Moodle if everyone else is moving on!

I hope it isn’t too much of a pain!

Let me know if you are having problems.

Summary for work for this week

Into the C20 (AoS E) – set on Monday / due Thursday

• Debussy Worksheet 2 (start with this)
• Core Wider Listening Piece 1 (this is just a bit of unseen listening for now, but actually this piece is one we are going to study as one of three core wider listening pieces – we need these as further examples for a 5-mark question in the exam)
• Composition Task (for Friday). Write a short (i.e. 12 or so bars) pentatonic sketch. You need to have a look at the examples here for inspiration and watch the video here. Google Classroom NOT Moodle please

WCT AoS A

• Dictation (on Google Classroom)
• Research/Revision for essay on Harmony and Tonality (remember video from last week)
• Complete Moodle Quiz Haydn 104 Movement 4 Quiz 3

Musical Theatre Aos C

• ‘People will say we’re in love’ listening exercise.
• 32-bar song form – due in on Google Classroom NOT Moodle please

Also there is the virtual concert choir piece to do here and your practical work to prepare.

Video Introduction

The above calendar gives an overview of what we are doing and when this half term. The focus is slightly changing as we study the following areas:

1. Into the Twentieth Century (AoS E)
   • Unseen listening in three early twentieth century styles
   • Set work: Debussy ‘Nuages’ from Nocturnes
2. Review Western Classical Tradition(AoS A) Haydn 104 and cover two more essay topics
3. Continue with Musical Theatre Listening (concentrating on the 32-bar song)
4. Experiment in a variety of non-WCT compositional styles

This Week

In general over this half term you need to do the six short composition tasks (see Calendar and Moodle) and make sure you have practice the music for your internal performance, which will go ahead in some form before the end of this term.

Monday

• Watch video introduction Into the Twentieth Century
• Complete Unseen Listening Exercise on Moodle
• Complete Debussy Worksheet on Moodle (you will need your yellow Nocturnes score for this)
• Start Composition Sketch 1 on Moodle (32-bar song form)

Wednesday

• Complete Dictation Exercise on Moodle
• Keep revising movements 1 and 4 of the Haydn for review test w/c 29th June. There are two Moodle Quizzes to complete.
• Begin to make notes on Essay Topic G (harmony and tonality).

Thursday

• Watch AoS A introduction to Essay Topic G (Harmony and Tonality)
• Complete Musical Theatre Exercise (on Moodle)
• Read the brief for the composition exercise carefully and listen to one or two of the relevant examples in the Composition Sketch 1 folder on Moodle.
• Live Session on Teams at 2.00pm