Composition (for Tuesday 26th November)

• Make corrections on your modulating period
• For the LAST eight bars of your piece you need to rewrite this period so that it has no secondary dominant and does not modulate. Make sure you finish with an idiomatic cadence like I6/4 V I or ii6 – V – I and end on the FIRST beat of the final bar
• To lead into the final eight bars, you need to write four bars (or more) of dominant pedal. You must use at least two different dissonant and chromatic harmonies discussed in class (from the WCT Fingerprints page)
• Leave a gap of six bars or so before, so the whole structure will be:
  • Modulating period
  • 6 blank bars
  • dominant pedal with harmonies over it
  • Modified non modulating period

History (for Wednesday 27th November)

You need to use your Development of Symphony Essay booklet to research Third movements (Topic D). Read the introductory material and then use the list provided for this topic to guide you to reading about and listening to the symphonies on The Development of the Symphony pages on alevelmusic.com. You will need to do this before Wednesday, when we will discuss the topic in class ready for an essay the following week.

NOTE: you should be doing regular revision every week using the checklist to make sure you use all the available resources. The planner is to help your synchronise your schedule with what we are reviewing in class.

Knowledge Test (A: Thursday 19th March / B: Friday 20th March)

This is a short answer test of basic knowledge needed for the exam. It will include everything from facts about wider listening pieces in both areas of study through to the location of specific features that you should have revised in set works.

The 99 Questions for A level revision on will help you revise for this test as well help you practice the skills we are working on in class.

Mock Exam (end of March)

Schedule as follows:

• Musical Theatre, Unseen AoS E Listening and Dication – A: Thursday 26th March / B: Friday 27th March
• Haydn, Essay and Poulenc/Debussy: Depending on your rehearsals choose ONE of the following 80 minutes slots on Tuesday 31st March: 8.40-10:00; 10:00-11:20 2:45-4:05. You need to sign up to one of these slots in advance

Composition

We should now be in the finishing off phase. The more you are on top of the game, the better your submission will be.

Checklist and log templates are here: https://moodle1.kedst.ac.uk/mod/folder/view.php?id=74762

• Making corrections
• Creating separate audio and print versions
• Filling in your log

Composition (for TUESDAY 19th)

Minuet Composition – First Eight Bars

Write eight bars of minuet that is:

• in 3/4
• in a major key
• a period
• in a string quartet score start with a melody and a bass line in the cello and chord labels (THESE ARE COMPULSORY). THEN you can fill in with a simple texture taken from the Basic String Quartet textures on www.alevelmusic.com
• modulate to the dominant in the second half of the phrase
• Use standard chord progressions including at the cadences

Haydn

Please update your new Haydn scores from your photocopies/notes so far.

Composition (A: Monday / B Wednesday)

Please complete corrections and suggestions from feedback on Piece 1 and start thinking about what you are going to do for Piece 2

Review

Please review the following:

• Haydn fourth movement
• Fourth movements of Wider Listening Symphonies
• FOR the following week, you need to start reviewing the Debussy Nocturne.

Composition (both classes for Tuesday 12th)

Finish the arrangment of the Haydn Minuet in the style of the Stamitz, Filtz and Haydn symphonies that we have studied. It is best done in that order and files are available on Moodle that are already set up and partially completed.

You have finished Starting Points and I am not setting any particular work over half term.

If you are feeling keen, you could do some listening as follows:

• THIRD movement of Haydn’s Symphony 104, which we will be studying,
• Rodgers and Hammerstein’s music, particularly Oklahoma and Carousel
• Any Haydn and Mozart String Quartets, to get a better feel for how these go

Preparation for first week back after half term:

• Review FOURTH movement of Haydn and Fourth movement essay topics ready for us to tackle this when we get back.
• Review Poulenc – notes in your revision booklets and both annotated and blank scores are on Moodle. We will have a short test on the usual AoS E lesson (Tuesday for A group / Thursday for B group). If time, there will also be a short C20 test including the 5-marker at the end on Core Wider Listening.

Have a nice break!

• Transfer your notes on essay topics from your year 12 revision booklet to the new year 13 booklet
• Revise for a timed essay at the end of next week on EITHER Second or Third movements
• Complete your work for the Composition Portfolio Submission at the end of next week on Moodle, This needs to be substantial sketches including at least first and second subjects, codetta and some development sketches

Composition

Complete a draft of the Starting Points Final Assessment on Sibelius and submit by the end of Wednesday (earlier if you like). The final submission of this will be Friday.

MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS HERE

NOTE: JUST SUBMIT A QUARTET FILE. I DON’T WANT TWO FILES

Revision

Make sure you are ready for the test on FRIDAY next week. It will include:

• Chords and labelling (see here)
• Keys and modulations
• Embellishment (see here)
• Four-part harmonisation of cadences (see in booklet and practice on Moodle)
• Basic phrase structures (see here)

Composition Task (8-bar sentence – Exercise J3)

DUE: TUESDAY 15th on Moodle by the end of the day

Write an 8-bar phrase in A major on a piano score. The bass stave should be used just to indicate the chords with the melody in the treble stave.

Instruction are on page 37 of the starting points book and HERE on Moodle

Note: I am happy for this to be handed in on paper by the end of the college day on Tuesday if you prefer but I would rather you did it on Sibelius