Suitable for students with a solid foundation of music vocabulary, and a decent amount of analytical listening experience.
Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including elements driven aural training, score reading and practice questions - featuring the timbres, devices and characteristics of traditional and contemporary Celtic Folk, traditional West African musics and African Fusions, Punjabi and British Bhangra, Arabic folk, Dub Reggae, Pop and EDM.
Corelli, Gaga, Mozart, Milhaud. Melodic dictation with rhythm provided, rhythmic dictation with melody provided, compositional devices, keys, modulation, working out chord progressions, locating and correct errors, identifying the correct melodic line, connecting musical characteristics with time period.
Lili Boulanger, Tchaikovsky, Dowland, The Beatles. Melodic dictation with rhythm provided, rhythmic dictation with melody provided, compositional devices, keys, modulation, working out chord progressions, locating and correct errors, identifying the correct melodic line, connecting musical characteristics with time period.
Faure, Mascagni, Billy Joel, Elmer Bernstein. Melodic dictation with rhythm provided, rhythmic dictation with melody provided, pitch and rhythm dictation with nothing provided, compositional devices, keys, modulation, chord progressions, locating and correct errors, comparison questions, identifying the correct melodic line, connecting musical characteristics with aspects of provenance.
Characteristics of Romantic piano music from simple programmatic collections of miniatures and study works for amateur music making, to the virtuosic world of the impromptu, ballade and concerto. The resource includes thumbprints of style, aural training exploring aspects of melodic writing, harmonic language, tonality, structure, texture, dynamics, rhythm, tempo, metre, the use of sonority, 'listening and appraising' questions and exam style questions. An additional wider listening playlist provides starting points for further questions to broaden and deepen students' understanding of style and genre.
Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including thumbprints of genres and period, elements driven aural training, score reading, practice questions with answers, featuring works by Vivaldi, Handel, Strozzi, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Faure, Verdi, Puccini, Britten.
Haydn, Satie, John Williams, Miles Davis. Melodic dictation with rhythm provided, rhythmic dictation with melody provided, compositional devices, keys, modulation, locate and correct errors, comparison questions, identifying the correct melodic line, connecting musical characteristics with aspects of provenance.
Teaching materials exploring the orchestral works of Bartók 'Concerto for Orchestra', 'Romanian Folk Dances', 'Dance Suite', and 'Music for Piano, percussion and celesta', and Kodály 'Concerto for Orchestra' and 'Hary Janos Suite'. This resource includes thumbprints of style, aural training exploring aspects of melodic writing, harmonic language, tonality, structure, texture, dynamics, rhythm, tempo, metre, the use of sonority, 'listening and appraising' questions and exam style questions. An additional wider listening playlist provides starting points for further questions to broaden and deepen students' understanding of style and genre.
An exploration of the influences and characteristics of the orchestral music of Copland through the ballet scores of 'Rodeo' and 'Appalachian Spring', 'Fanfare for the Common Man', 'Quiet City', and 'Lincoln Portrait'. This resource includes thumbprints of style, aural training exploring aspects of melodic writing, harmonic language, tonality, structure, texture, dynamics, rhythm, tempo, metre, the use of sonority, 'listening and appraising' questions and exam style questions. An additional wider listening playlist provides starting points for further questions to broaden and deepen students' understanding of style and genre.
