AoS E (Thursday)

Make sure you have revised for the Debussy test on THURSDAY

Composition (Due by 4pm on MONDAY) – here on Google Classroom

1. Decide what you are going to do for your composition. The default choice is some sort of sonata form or Minuet and Trio for String Quartet but there are many other options (including doing some sort of programmatic piece). It is important that you have a piece or pieces on which your composition is modelled. For the first part of your homework you need to decide: forces, form and main influence(s). You can scroll through the music Composition Moodle to find a piece to use as a model.
2. Write an initial idea. Make sure you use the resources on the A level Composition Hub particularly Phrase Structures and Textures at the moment.

Welcome back to a (relatively) normal year. I am looking forward to getting on with your second and last year of music at KE!

• Don’t forget to come to the meeting about enrichment and music lessons  on Monday 13 September 12.00-13.30 in the Lecture Theatre (not Chambers )
• You have a LiKE week first for which there is review work on the Debussy. In the first week back of teaching we will have a short formal test to check your knowledge of this set work.
  • Revision materials (notes, video etc. do this thoroughly first by Wednesday 8th September at the latest)
  • Revision Questions (do this next, by Friday 10th September at the latest)
• If you missed the exam you should make sure you do the resit on THURSDAY next week (it will not be the same as the paper taken by the other students – don’t presume the same essay questions/movements etc. will come up)

Any question. Please get in touch!

Revision

Links to all the revision materials you need are collected on an assignment on Google Classroom. Starting in the week after half term, you should post evidence of your revision at the end of each week.

In class we will have mini revision tests on the Haydn as follows:

• Tuesday 6th July Third movement review
• Thursday 8th July – Marked test on Movement 3

Debussy

Complete Review 2 on Google Classroom by THURSDAY please

Composition (both octatonic and serial projects now due by end of Friday 9th July)

Octatonic Project (see Google Classroom)

Serial Project (see Google Classroom)

Debussy

Complete Review 1 on Google Classroom by TUESDAY please

Composition (both octatonic and serial projects now due by end of Friday 9th July)

Octatonic Project (see Google Classroom)

Serial Project (see Google Classroom)

Revision

Links to all the revision materials you need are collected on an assignment on Google Classroom. Starting in the week after half term, you should post evidence of your revision at the end of each week.

In class we will have mini revision tests on the Haydn as follows:

• Tuesday 29th June second movement review
• THURSDAY 1st – GC timed test on Movements 1, 2 and 4
• Tuesday 6th July Third movement review
• Thursday 8th July – Marked test on Movement 3

Essay Research

Topic G (Harmony and Tonality). Initital reading and research on Google Classroom (due on Tuesday 8th June)

Revision

Links to all the revision materials you need are collected on an assignment on Google Classroom. Starting in the week after half term, you should post evidence of your revision at the end of each week.

In class we will have mini revision tests on the Haydn as follows:

• w/c 14th June First movement
• w/c 21st June Fourth movement
• w/c 28th June Second movement
• w/c 5th July Third movement

Assessments on Thursday 20th May

• Short answer test on Haydn 104 last movement (homework is review on GC here – due Tuesday 18th)
• Essay question on finales (homework is revision task on GC here due Thursday 20th)

Other revision resources you can use is here:

• Readings on Essay Topics
• Annotated scores
• Revision Work (from Google Classroom and elsewhere)
• Blank Scores

Composition

Draft Rondo due on Friday 14th May on Google Classroom

Revision

Revise for a short answer test on the SECOND movement of the Haydn on Tuesday 27th April

Composition (deadline Friday 30th April on Google Classroom)

NOTE: next week we will be adding another few features so don’t hand it in early

Write a storm episode for orchestra. Your orchestra should be at least the size of that for Haydn 104.

There is no set form and it need not be a complete movement (i.e. a fragment is fine) but it must use features covered in class and listed here.

Please make sure you have handed in your Rondo and your photocopies and programme for the Performance Assessment by WEDNESDAY 31st

AoS A and Haydn 104

• Prepare for a timed essay on Second Movements (Topic C) using the materials on Google Classroom (timed essay on Tuesday 20th April)
• Prepare for a Short Answer test on the Second movement of the Haydn (review materials on Google Classroom)
• Review the work we have done on the FOURTH movement (Google Classroom quiz activity now available – due on Monday 19th April)

Composition (Tuesday 23rd March – end of day)

• Do the corrections on your last submission
• Write a B section (see instructions on GC)

Review

• Complete Review Task on Movement 4 by TUESDAY. BEFORE THE LESSON

Performance

Please submit the form on Google Classroom either filled in or scanned. You can EITHER submit your music electronically as scans on Google Classroom OR as a printed copy to me. You need not resubmit music that you are repeating but clearly indicate below whether or not the piece was in your initial performance. Deadline is the last Monday of this half term. The performances will be in the week beginning Monday 14th June.

Composition

• Rondo Initial Tasks (due Monday 8th)

AoS A – Western Classical Tradition

• Make sure you have also finished Research for Essay Topic F (Orchestration) – set last week. Due 5th March.
• Haydn Review 4 (set later in the week on GC)