Year 11 Summer Work 2020

Year 12 Preparation

The focus of your work for the summer term is to prepare yourself for your Year 12 music studies.

There are lots of similarities between GCSE and A Level such as Performing and Composing but there are new skills to be learned as well as greater depth generally.

Each slide will have specific tasks with links and guides where appropriate.

Performance

Performing is a major part of A Level Music – you will have to perform in the Year 13 final examinations - and so keep on practising!

With this in mind, prepare a solo piece (or pieces) to perform when you return to school in year 12.

Challenge: Learn and perform a piece you have not presented before! Send recordings of your progress.

Composition At the end of the A Level course in year 13 you will have to compose a minimum of 2 pieces (3 if you choose

the composition option.)

Each year Eduqas sets briefs for one of these pieces.

Here are 4 recent briefs set for AS:

1. Compose an unaccompanied choral piece for a county youth choir Summer concert. You may choose appropriate existing words, or write your own words.

2. Write a piece of instrumental music to be played in school Autumn concert, it must make use of diminution.

3. Compose a vocal solo with accompaniment suitable for performance in a commemorative event for war veterans. You may choose appropriate existing words, or write your own words.

4. Write a Minuet and Trio for outdoor performance in a cultural festival organised by the local university.

Choose one of these and have a go at creating the piece. As with GCSE, think about recording and notating your pieces and do send your ideas through as they develop. However, the piece must reflect Western Classical Music – Baroque , Classical, Romantic. This means a piece in one of those styles or a piece with elements of some or all of them.

Appraising: General Information

The set work we shall be studying is Haydn Symphony No104.

In Year 12 Movements 1 and 2 are studied, in Year 13 the whole piece.

As well as this, in Year 12 there are 3 other options and one of them is chosen to study:

Rock

Jazz

Musical theatre

Haydn: Tasks

Task 1: As an introduction, write a biography of Haydn, finding out about his life, career, types of piece that he wrote and information about his musical style.

Task 2: to prepare for studying Symphony no 104 research information about the early symphony (also known as the Pre-Classical symphony.) Find out about the types of piece that the symphony evolved from, structures, instruments and refer to composers such as J.C. Bach, Johann and Karl Stamitz, Wagenseil, Monn and so on. Work up to when Haydn began writing his symphonies.

Please send work when ready.

Haydn: Symphony No. 104

Do listen to the symphony, there are many recordings. Download the score from www.freescores.com. Use these guides to

help you with score reading because we have not done much of this: Watch the video below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfky3pQEeqg Single line score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpe7thXd69E (first 3 minutes)

Single line score practise: Score: Sarabande Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfLUoTBc06c

Two line score video (piano): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5dL-65mKe0 3:03 – 5:05

Two line score practise (piano): Score: Mozart Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXIu0MRuIQU

String Quartet score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGoxfQ2H3ns – watch first TWO movements (slow and fast).

String Quartet practise: Score: Haydn Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO9dkM6ftD4

Orchestra score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcaUGsL2EpI

Options: Rock

If this option is chosen, the dates studied are 1960-1990.

The specific areas are:

Pop

Rock (including Progressive Rock, Heavy, Folk-Rock and Punk)

Soul

Funk (including disco).

Rock: Suggested ListeningThe Beatles – Within Without You

Rolling Stones – Satisfaction

The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

Martha and the Vandellas – Nowhere to Run

Tammy Wynette: D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

Ike and Tina Turner River Deep Mountain High

The Doors - Light My Fire

Genesis - Supper’s Ready

David Bowie – Heroes

The Clash – London’s Calling

Donna Summer - I Feel Love

The Specials – Ghost Town

Ultravox – Hiroshima mon Amour

Fatboy Slim – Praise You

The Happy Mondays – Step On

The Smiths – This Charming Man

Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space.

The Longpigs – Jesus Christ.

Options: Jazz

If this is chosen, the dates are 1920-1950.

The specific areas are:

Ragtime

Dixieland

Early Jazz

Big Band

Be-Bop

Jazz: Suggested Listening

JazzScott Joplin-Maple Leaf Rag/The Entertainer James P Johnson – CharlestonJelly Roll Morton – Black Bottom StompLouis Armstrong – West End Blues Duke Ellington – Mood IndigoFats Waller – Ain’t Misbehavin’Parker/Gillespie – AnthropologyElla Fitzgerald Live in Berlin – How High the MoonStan Getz – Stella by StarlightMiles Davis – Moon DreamsThelonious Monk Four in One.

Options: Musical Theatre

If this option is chosen , the areas to study are:

Richard Rogers Leonard Bernstein Stephen Sondheim Claude-Michel Schonberg Andrew Lloyd-Webber

Musical Theatre- Suggested Listening

Excerpts from:

Oklahoma!

Sweeney Todd

West Side Story

Jesus Christ Superstar

Les Miserables

Options:

Listen to the areas outlined and then decide which one you want to study in Year 12!