You must …

• Complete the WCT Melody Task using the method outlined on this site. It is really important you follow the instructions on the method very carefully so that your melodies are genuinely WCT in technique, style and structure.
  [this can be done on Noteflight, Musescore or similar if you haven’t Sibelius at home and then you can upload/import it in September]
• Update your Debussy score annotations, making sure that everything from the Debussy Revision Notes is included

You should …

• Start planning and making some sketches for you second (and third) compositions. You can email me any work for comments over the summer if you wish
• Do some listening to WCT Wider Listening works on Moodle, using the revision notes as a guide

You could …

• Listen to the other movements of the Debussy (that we are not studying) [Youtube]
• Listen  to the second movement of the Poulenc Trio that we are studying next year [Youtube]
• Do some general background listening and reading using the SHOM pages on here as a starting point (more tracks on Moodle)

C20 Composition (Friday 30th June)

Compose an octatonic passage – see notes for help.

MT Composition (Friday 7th July)

Now please improve and expand your 32-bar song.  You can add an introductory (sectional) verse, turn it into a duet, orchestrate it, expand the B or returning A of the AABA itself.

Performance and Composition Planning (Monday 10th July)

Please complete the planners given out in class. The compostion planner is available for download here but if you lose the performance one you will have to ask me for a new one as they are personalized.

C20 Composition Homework (upload to Moodle by end of Friday 16th June)
Please complete 6-12 bars of music based on a whole-tone scale.

• Stuff on whole-tone scales is here
• You can base your texture on one of these string quartets or you could look through some of the more adventurous textures on Moodle – either orchestral examples OR the general narrative music examples a bit further down

Musical Theatre Composition Homework (upload to Moodle by end of Friday 23rd June) – continued from last week
Please complete a piece in 32-bar song form according to this brief. The idea is to do the basic 32-bar song for this deadline and then expand it in the next couple of weeks.

Debussy
Please make sure that your full score has the same section information in it as the piano score.

C20 Composition Homework (upload to Moodle by end of Friday 16th June)
Please complete 6-12 bars of music based on a pentatonic scale.

• Stuff on pentatonic scales are here
• I would prefer you to base your texture on one of these string quartets but if you have a strong idea for a piano or orchestral texture then you can do that instead

Musical Theatre Composition Homework (upload to Moodle by end of Friday 23rd June)
Please complete a piece in 32-bar song form according to this brief. The idea is to do the basic 32-bar song for this deadline and then expand it in the next couple of weeks.

Listening Diary

Please complete a listening diary. It should consist of a table with one side being the name and details of the piece (i.e. composer, date etc.) and the other being some notes about what is important about the piece and anything you noticed or thought about when listening to it. You only need to write rough notes and it can either be handwritten or word-processed. You should listen to around 20 movements taken from a broad selection of the Wider Listening Symphonies and featured Musicals Composers. All music and scores you need are on Moodle.

5-mark practice
Complete at least TWO harmonic analysis practice questions

Essay practice
Complete bullet-pointed notes for at least ONE essay.

Reading
You should read through the relevant parts of the study guide – all the composers other than Schwartz and the AoS A notes.

Composition (end of Friday)

• Upload your composition to Moodle (Easter Submission folder)
• Print off the score
• Fill in the Internal Assessment Composing

There will be a box for printed compositions and logs in the top corridor outside the music room

Listening
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Composition

Please resubmit your work in progress on Moodle by the end of Friday

Symphony (for Monday 27th in the lesson)

Please write notes for an essay on the following title:

Outline the development of the orchestra in symphonic writing from 1750-1900

You should refer to around 8-10 specific examples and as part of this homework, make sure you listen to the examples that you are talking about on Moodle and you could even look at the scores. All the material is in a folder at the bottom of the AoS A section on the Eduqas Moodle. Although you do not need to write a full essay, you do need to write in sentences and explain how your examples relate to the development that you are discussing.

Composition

Please start one of the Internal Assessment Composing Briefs given out no Monday. Hand in your initial theme for whichever brief you choose by the end of Friday this week (NOTE: don’t worry about the post-assessment tasks for now, I would rather you concentrated on this brief). Longer term deadlines can be found on dates and deadlines page.

AoS A/C

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