Exam style practice question 5, with embedded video, guidance on preparation, writing style, essay structure, and a playlist made up of pertinent 'wider listening' reference materials
Exam style practice question 5, with embedded video, guidance on preparation, writing style, essay structure, and a playlist made up of pertinent 'wider listening' reference materials
Elizabeth Poston, Leroy Anderson, John Williams, George Michael. Melodic dictation with rhythm provided, rhythmic dictation with melody provided, melodic and rhythmic dictation no clues, compositional devices, keys, chords, cadences, location and correction of pitch errors.
Exam style practice question 5, with embedded video, guidance on preparation, writing style, essay structure, and a playlist made up of pertinent 'wider listening' reference materials
Six 'listening and appraising' exam-style questions exploring dynamics, rhythmic devices, time signatures, structural devices, melodic movement, melodic devices, pitch recognition and dictation, melodic intervals, range, harmonic language, cadences, chords, sonority/timbre, instrumental and vocal groupings, instrumental and vocal roles within an ensemble, texture, tonality
Exam style practice question, opening paragraph material, links to articles, performance footage and a wider listening playlist.
Exam style practice question 5, with embedded video, guidance on preparation, writing style, essay structure, and a playlist made up of pertinent 'wider listening' reference materials
Suitable for students with a solid foundation of music vocabulary, and a decent amount of analytical listening experience.
There are two versions of this lesson. The first is a good fit for students with a solid foundation of music vocabulary, and a decent amount of analytical listening experience. The second is simpler, and probably more suited to year 7 term 1.
Examples and practice questions focusing on the identification of timbres (snare drum, bass drum, cymbal, tam tam, triangle, tambourine, woodblock, guiro, claves, cowbell, cabasa, maracas, bongos, congas), and playing techniques (strike, roll, rimshot, damping). This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.
