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Edexcel GCSE Appraising - Section A, question 8: AOS 3 Stage and Screen - Musical Theatre

Edexcel GCSE Section A, question 8

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Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including elements driven aural training, score reading, practice questions with answers, featuring music by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Roders and Hammerstein, Loesser, Porter, Sherman bros, Coleman and Fields, Sondheim, Menken, Ashman and Rice, Elton John, Mitchell, Pasek and Paul.

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Edexcel GCSE Appraising - Section A, question 8: AOS 2 Vocal Pop and Rock

Edexcel GCSE Section A, question 8

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Materials to support students in preparing for Section A question 8 'unfamiliar' works, including thumbprints of Pop and Rock, elements driven aural training, score reading, practice questions with answers, featuring songs by Guns n Roses, Rainbow, The Who, Eric Clapton, Queen, Joan Jett, The Beatles, Elton John, Bee Gees, Billy Joel, Gary Numan, Eurythmics, De La Soul, Oasis, Harry Styles, Rick Astley, Bon Jovi, Sam Smith.

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Edexcel GCSE Appraising - Section A, question 8: AOS 1 Classical instrumental music

Edexcel GCSE Section A, question 8

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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, featuring works by Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, Beethoven.

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Edexcel GCSE Appraising - Section A, question 8: AOS 1 Baroque instrumental music

Edexcel GCSE Section A, question 8

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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 Bach, Vivaldi, Clarke, Telemann.

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Four-part harmony exercise 29

Suitable for all exam boards that have an SATB J.S.Bach chorale four part harmony question

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Changing the harmonic rhythm to a quaver (rare but useful), and V7d-Ib and V7b-I pairs for mid phrase modulations.

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GCSE Listening And Appraising - Elements test 4

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Suitable for AQA, OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas GCSE specifications

Questions on rhythm and pitch recognition, woodwind playing techniques, rhythmic devices, instrumental roles in an ensemble, string and percussion timbres, metre, keys, cadences, modulation, ornamentation, scale types.

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Four-part harmony exercise 28 and test 4

Suitable for all exam boards that have an SATB J.S.Bach chorale four part harmony question

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Five short opening phrase exercises exploring aspects of contrary motion in the outside parts, opportunities for melodic bass lines and voice leading in both major and minor keys, followed by test 4.

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Four-part harmony exercise 27

Suitable for all exam boards that have an SATB J.S.Bach chorale four part harmony question

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Four examples and five exercises in anacrustic opening phrases, exploring stylistic chord choices, melodic bass lines, and revision of a few favourite stock patterns.

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Assessment materials for year 7 term 3 'Reggae'

KS3 assessment materials

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Language for learning: Melodic movement: scalic, major, moving by step, conjunct, moving by leap, triadic, disjunct, ascending, descending, repeating, in relation to the tonic and dominant, root, third, fifth. Pitch: low, mid, high. Notation: metre, note names, note values, bar, beat, line, part. Texture: melody and accompaniment. Rhythm: pulse, repetitive, off-beat, syncopated, back-beat, skank. Harmony and tonality: major and minor triads. Timbre/Forces: voices, guitar, bass, drum kit, marimbula/mento box, horn section, backing singers. Structure: verse/chorus, intro, contrast, repetition, riff. DAW: real-time, step-time recording, sequencing, edit, loop, duplicate, quantise, locator.

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Assessment materials for year 8 term 1 'Ode to Joy'

KS3 assessment materials

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Language for Learning: Melodic movement: scalic, moving by step, conjunct, moving by leap, triadic, disjunct, ascending, descending, repeating, modified, phrase, resolve. Pitch: low, mid, high. Notation: score, metre, note names, note values, bar, beat, line, part. Texture: melody and accompaniment, unison, octaves, solo, block chord, orchestral tutti. Rhythm: regular pulse, metre, down-beat, syncopated. Harmony and tonality: major and minor, chord, triad, cadence, consonance, dissonance, tonic, dominant, I ‘one’, V ‘five’, key signature. Timbre/Forces: orchestra, families of instruments, individual instrument names , strings bowed (arco and pizz.) choir, voice types: soprano, alto, tenor, bass. Structure: phrase, AA’BA’, contrast, repetition, balanced, question and answer. Dynamics: piano, forte, soft, strong, crescendo, diminuendo.