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AS Music Homework – Group BB – w/c 21st September
1. Your starting points booklet should be complete up to Exercise 13. I will be setting a further exercise and taking in the whole booklet next week
2. Complete the Vocal works summary sheet by FRIDAY 2nd October
A2 Homework – w/c 14th September
Composition
Last week’s ‘Burglar Music’ orchestration task is due by the end of Wednesday please and this week’s ‘Triumphant March’ is due in by the end of NEXT Wednesday (moved forward)
Applied
None this week
Instrumental
Not yet set
Chorale
Complete Worksheet 1 (find it on this page about half way down under phrase worksheets).
Make sure you follow the method outlined in your handbooks, with primary chords in root position on the LH side of the sheet and changing the bassline etc on the RH side. There is a weekly chorale workshop on Fridays at 12.45 in the music room.
AS Music Homework – Group BB – w/c 14th September
Starting Points
Please make sure you know your embellishments (p. 42 in the Handbook – also in the Handbook on this site) for Friday, when we will have a spot test.
AS Music Homework – Group BD – w/c 7th September
Starting Points
Complete all the exercises up to and including Exercise 4b on page 5. If you are struggling, please don’t tell me in the lesson on Wednesday that you haven’t managed to complete it – come to the workshop at 11:30 on Monday.
AS Music Homework – Group BB – w/c 7th September
Starting Points
Complete all the exercises up to and including Exercise 4b on page 5. If you are struggling, please don’t tell me in the lesson on Wednesday that you haven’t managed to complete it – come to the workshop at 11:30 on Monday.
Put Exercise 8a and 8b on the relevant part of the String Quartet template. Please stick VERY CLOSELY to the models.
A2 Homework – w/c 7th September
Composition
Please finish the first Orchestration Exercise by the end of Tuesday and submit on Moodle. I have tried to make the relevant Moodle bits a little easier to use by collapsing the scores and tracks into one folder. Where there is not a track you are supposed to search on Youtube or similar to find it.
Instrumental
Not yet set
CBSO Concerts Trips 2015/16
We have got tickets for four brilliant concerts this year. See below for details. You can book as many as you want on the booking form below, which you need to print off and take to registry with a payment:
>> Link to booking form <<
| Thursday 1st October | Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
Mozart – Piano Concerto in Eb, K 271 Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 |
CBSO / Edward Gardner / Lars Vogt | |
| Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 is one of his most popular masterpieces. The famous horn tune at the end is magical, but even more so is the way the whole symphony builds to this moment. Brilliant young German pianist Lars Vogt is playing Mozart’s sparkling little Piano Concerto in Eb, before which Gardner is conducting Mendelssohn’s well-known depiction of a sea trip off Scotland. | |||
| Wednesday 11th November | Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2 Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 1 |
CBSO / Ben Gernon / Anna Vinnitskaya | |
| Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony is his first really significant work and in it he aimed to depict a series of wintery scenes. Shostakovich’s second piano concerto is one of his most cheerful and popular works. It was written as a 19th birthday present for his son Maxim and packs in an impressive amount of sparkling piano fireworks into its twenty minutes. Ravel’s Le Tombeau was written in homage to the Baroque composer Couperin and presents a Baroque suite spiced up with a sprinkling of twentieth century chromaticism and dissonance. | |||
| Wednesday 27th January | Haydn – Symphony No. 92
Symanowsky – Violin Concerto Brahms – Symphony No. 4 |
CBSO / Lahav Shani / Nicola Benedetti | |
| The highlight of this concerto should be the fabulous Nicola Benedetti playing Symamowsky’s colourful abnd fantastical violin concerto, but Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is an undoubted masterpiece, particularly the majestic fourth movement and Haydn’s joyous 92nd Symphony should put you in a good mood from the start! | |||
| Wednesday 9th March | Borodin – Polotsvian Dances
Golijov – Azul Shostakovich – Symphony No. 15 |
CBSO / Alpesh Chauhan / Eduardo Vassalo | |
| Shostakovich’s last symphony starts of in a light-hearted vein but unlike the Piano concerto from the November concert, there are many more dark moments in this intriguing and moving work. At the other end of the spectrum is Borodin’s famous set of pieces from his opera Prince Igor, which evoke exotic Russian dances. In the middle of this Russian sandwich is a UK premier of a cello concerto by Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov, which is inspired by the Baroque concerto tradition. | |||
Summer Tasks (A2)
Applied
Please complete this set of Short Essay Tasks. You should also listen to the set works listed in the handbook and on the CD.
Welcome to New Students
Welcome to our new students. You will find information on this blog about most things
Over the summer you were set some tasks:
- Complete AS Performance initial proposals for Friday11th September
- Complete the Short History of Music tasks for your first music lesson
- Brush up on your basic theory (Keys, Chords and Cadences in particular)
- Buy a ring binder and a pack of dividers
- Make sure your instrument is in good working order
- Go through the list of key dates with your parents and make sure they are in diaries
- Follow this blog and our Facebook page and our Twitter accounts (also duplicated on Facebook here)
Any worries – email Tom Pankhurst (tom.pankhurst@kedst.ac.uk)
You should also like/follow our Facebook and Twitter accounts – see above.
[PS: don’t worry about the stuff below this post in our archive – it is all from the current AS year]
A2( both groups) Homework w/c 15th June
Composition
Make sure you have handed in your first sketch by the end of Friday. Your next deadline is finding four detailed influences from Moodle by the end of next Wednesday (24th). I will suggest a couple as part of my feedback over the weekend.
History and Listening
Presentations next week are Baroque Vocal Music / Classical Orchestral Music
Instrumental
See last week