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

Coming up:

• Thursday 21st May: Final Submission of Rondo
• Monday 25th May: Submission of notes on Debussy

Rondo (Submission on Thursday)

As well as responding to your feedback you should also consider the following points:

• Make sure there is plenty of articulation (particularly short slurs and staccatos) and dynamic marking
• Keeping the A section returns varied (without breaking them!)
• Making your textures lively and interesting (but not over complex)
• You could also add a D section if you have not done so already so it goes ABACA’DABA. The A before the D should be shorter, more varied and modulate to the new key.

Debussy and the Early Twentieth Century

This week I want you to start research for the topic we are starting after half term. You should also start getting to know the first movement of the Debussy Preludes – the yellow score I gave you before lockdown.

• You should complete the tasks described here: https://moodle1.kedst.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1139#section-8 by 25th May and submit on Moodle
• You should also (if possible) read the chapter on Into the Twentieth Century in the Rhinegold Eduqas Study Guide
• You should also read and listen to the links on the Short History of Music here
• Listen to the Debussy. The track is on Moodle but also on Youtube This is a piece that you may not immediately be attracted to – it is atmospheric and evocative rather than tuneful. Try and listen to it immersing yourself in its atmosphere, which is something like a ship sailing on a misty ocean in which you can see blurred outlines and shapes and hear strange noises!

WCT etc

Later in the week I will have finished marking your assessments from last week and you should review your marks and feedback. I will let you know when this is ready.

Coming up:

• Wednesday 13th May: Final Check of Rondo Draft
• Thursday 14th May: Online Assessment: Musical Theatre Listening, Dictation, Short Answer on Haydn 104 (any movement), Essay on one of Topics B-F.
• Thursday 21st May: Final Submission of Rondo

Rondo

Wednesday submission here

As well as responding to your feedback you should also consider the following points:

• Make sure there is plenty of articulation (particularly short slurs and staccatos) and dynamic marking
• Keeping the A section returns varied (without breaking them!)
• Making your textures lively and interesting (but not over complex)
• You could also add a D section if you have not done so already so it goes ABACA’DABA. The A before the D should be shorter, more varied and modulate to the new key.

WCT and Music Theatre

This week is test week! There will be a series of Moodle tests to do on THURSDAY.

1. Watch the Revision Videos for all four movements of the Haydn and revise them (Minuet video will be up on Tuesday). First movement / Second movement / Third movement / Fourth movement (NEW VERSION)
2. Make a revision aid for one or two of the movements that we can share. It could be a summary card, a quiz, a powerpoint or in fact anything at all. If you could attach a file or a link in the appropriate Moodle submission by the end of Tuesday that would be excellent.
3. Do at least one Moodle Revision Quiz for each movement and a couple of music theatre practice exercises.
4. Revise your essay topics
5. Watch this video on Music Theatre Worksheet 33 from last week

Video Introduction

Coming up:

• This Thursday 7th May: Timed Mixed Short Answer Test on Movements 1-3 (particularly 3)
• This Thursday 7th May: Timed Essay facts any one of Topics B, C, or D (topics listed at the bottom of the page here)
• Wednesday 13th May: Final Check of Rondo Draft
• Thursday 14th May: Online Assessment: Musical Theatre Listening, Dictation, Short Answer on Haydn 104 (any movement), Essay on one of Topics B-F.
• Thursday 21st May: Final Submission of Rondo

Rondo

You should have feedback. Please email if you have not. Next and final checkup is Wednesday 19th May.

WCT

1. Do WCT Worksheet 44 in WCT Aural Workbook 2 (files and explanations on Moodle)
2. Review Movement 1-3 Essay and Short Answer for Movement 3
3. You could also look at the exemplar essay on Topic E beginning on Moodle and continue it in the same level of detail (if you did not do that last week).
4. Do the test on Moodle between 9am and 10pm on Thursday (link in email if you cannot find it)

Musical Theatre

The introductory video includes a brief look at LAST weeks worksheet. There is now a new worksheet to complete

Video Introduction

Coming up:

• This Thursday 30th: Timed Short Answer Test on Fourth Movement (Moodle)
• This Thursday 30th: Rondo work-in-progress (including documentation on remaining WCT features added)
• Next Thursday 7th May: Timed Mixed Short Answer Test on Movements 1-3
• Next Thursday 7th May: Timed Essay on any one of Topics B, C, D or F (topics listed at the bottom of the page here)
• Monday 11th May: Final Check of Rondo Draft
• Thursday 14th May: Online Assessment: Musical Theatre Listening, Dictation, Short Answer on Haydn 104 (any movement), Essay on one of Topics B-F.
• Thursday 21st May: Final Submission of Rondo

Rondo

Everyone should have had feedback and be acting upon it. When you hand it in again this Thursday you MUST provide an audit of your progress. Please copy and paste the feedback I gave you and annotate it in a different colour, highlighting what you have and have not done and asking for clarification or help where you need it.

WCT (finish 1-4 before WEDNESDAY morning then watch the next video)

1. Do Worksheet 4 on Moodle
2. Do WCT Listening Worksheet 45 in WCT Aural Workbook 2 (files and explanations on Moodle)
3. Complete the Moodle Quiz and Kahoot (linked to on Moodle)
4. Review Movement 2 Essay and Short Answer
5. WEDNESDAY MORNING- follow up video on worksheet (Review of Second movement / Review of answers to Worksheet 4)
6. THURSDAY Short answer test [available from 9am – 10pm] on Movement 4 (prepare using annotated score, animated annotated score and do a Moodle Quiz on fourth movement to prepare for this)
7. You could also look at the exemplar essay beginning on Moodle and continue it in the same level of detail.

Musical Theatre

There is a worksheet to complete on Moodle (please do so before before Monday)

Welcome Video

NOTE: Next THURSDAY there will be a test on Haydn Fourth Movement

Rondo

If you handed it in on time you should have Feedback on Moodle by the end of today (Monday). If you haven’t, please let me know. I am working through the late and more complicated ones (i.e. ones on Musescore etc.) at the moment.

Please act on this feedback. You need to use the WCT Features Audit to help you add the remaining features. If you need help, drop me an email asking me to explain. Next time I take it in (on Thursday NEXT week – 30th April) I will want you to fill in a sheet updating what you have now added.

For most of you the work will be as follows:

• Corrections
• Adding missing WCT features
• Improving textures (and changing them on repeated A sections)
• Adding/improving a coda
• Improving articulation and dynamics
• Adding a D section (refer back to brief below)

WCT (finish 1-3 before Thursday morning then watch the next video)

1. Do Worksheet 3 on Moodle
2. Do WCT Listening Worksheet 13 in the booklet (files and explanations on Moodle)
3. Complete the Moodle Quiz and Kahoot (linked to on Moodle)
4. Watch the follow up video (NOW AVAILABLE)
5. Review Movement 1 Essay and Short answer ready for the Internal Assessments in the week beginning 11th May
6. NEW: Review movement 4 (now we have finished it) for a test next week. You might find the animated annotated score from before Easter helpful but I will also set some further review tasks on Monday

Musical Theatre

Download and print the worksheet on Moodle (it is also towards the end of the second Musical Theatre Workbook).

Use Video Part I and Video Part II to complete it

Transition to Music at University

I have put up a page of resources and links to help prepare you for music at Uni. I will keep updating this page as the rest of the year unfolds.

Week 2: Intro Video

Rondo

This week, before we start the Easter break, I would like you to do the following. I will then give you formal feedback over Easter so you can start really polishing it next term:

• Make corrections as per your feedback
• Make a list of WCT features from the brief and where they feature in your composition. This can just be a series of bullet points or a table in a Word or similar document
• Copy and paste your ABA’ after the C section. Choose at least one A section and rewrite it with a modified texture.
• Add a coda to the end (look at this handout on codas to help you)

Western Classical Tradition

1. Keep on making notes on and revising for the timed essay at the end of this week on LAST MOVEMENTS. Video Part 1 / Video Part 2
2. Complete Worksheet 2 (on Moodle) in readiness for a video and follow-up task later in the week
3. Complete the dictation exercise on Moodle
4. Watch this VIDEO that discusses answers to the worksheet and goes through the fourth movement of the Haydn
5. COMPLETE the timed essay buy the end of Friday 3rd April and submit it on Moodle.

Welcome to online learning in these uncertain times. I will keep your work for each week all in one post for simplicity but I will add signposting to new materials as we go along. Any questions, please email me or even better post in the Moodle Online Forum.

This week we are carrying on with the Rondo composition, Haydn Finale and (later in the week) doing a bit of Musical Theatre.

Watch this video first. It is a general intro to the week and has some discussion of next steps in the Rondo:

Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EY3peslKhw (warning: some dodgy editing – I’m still getting used to the software!!!)

Composition: Rondo

NOTE: if you are having Sibelius problems you could switch to Musescore. I now have this and I can also convert any Sibelius files that you need into this format. Email me.

Have another look at the brief to make sure you know what you are doing. This week, with a bit of luck for Thursday 26th on Moodle, I want you make corrections to your ABA’ opening (see feedback on Moodle) plus a first draft of your C section (which should be in the tonic minor).

There will be technical teething issues in these first few weeks. Please contact me for help! I was hoping to get free licences from Avid but as things shut down we will have to see. In the meantime you could subscribe to the free or student versions. If you can’t make this work, you can use alternative software like Musescore and Noteflight but sharing work with me will be a little bit more of a pain. Whatever, don’t worry. Stay in contact and we will find a way.

Western Classical Tradition

Do Worksheet 1 on Moodle (here on the Common Resources Moodle). This consists of some detailed questions on the score. When you have tried to answer them then you can continue.

Video 2 (watch this once you have finished Worksheet 1)

Complete the assignment on Moodle (due on Friday)

On a word document, or any format you like, put together a brief explanation of how Haydn uses interrupted cadences in the finale of 104. You need to show, with bar numbers, some of the surprises and delays that Haydn creates. You can just do it in prose, or as a poster or PowerPoint or whatever

There is also a dictation exercise on Moodle for you to complete.

Continue with making notes on the finale in the symphony. Use your Development of the Symphony essay booklet plus the notes here on alevelmusic. We will do a timed essay on finales at the end of next week.

Musical Theatre

We are doing Worksheet 48, which is in your MT Workbook 2 and also in this week’s folder on Moodle.

Video lesson part 1

Video lesson part 2

Performance

Starting on Friday 20th we are going to start recording videos of your practical programme so that we have something we can send to the board in the event that our examiner visit does not go ahead. You will have a rehearsal and, as advised by the board, a single uninterrupted recording of your programme. Schedules will be emailed and posted on the noticeboard

Composition

I would like you do create your coursework folder on your H drive before the end of Friday this week and put a draft PDF and MP3 file in it for all your compositions. I will then have something to submit even if you can no longer access the software and drives that you need. Please see the checklist file names etc. (here: https://moodle1.kedst.ac.uk/mod/folder/view.php?id=74762)
PLEASE DO THIS EVEN IF YOUR WORK IS NOT FINISHED.

1. download the log and start filling it in so you are ready to email it to me if I ask for it
2. Create a simple word document called simply “<name> To Do”.that lists the things in your piece as a bullet pointed list that you have yet to finish and place it in the same folder