Exam style skeleton score questions and answers for Vaughan Williams 'Is my Team Ploughing?'
Exam style skeleton score questions and answers for Pine 'Love and Affection'
Exam style practice question, opening paragraph material, links to articles, performance footage and a wider listening playlist.
Exam style skeleton score questions and answers for Pine 'Inner State'
Exam style skeleton score questions and answers for Herrmann 'Psycho' Marion
Teaching materials with supporting teacher notes, covering key aspects of the concerto and orchestra of the Classical period. Features of the three movement form, the evolution of sonata form from rounded binary form, role of the cadenza, modulation, texture, harmonic language, ornamentation and compositional devices explored in context. This resource includes thumbprints of style, aural training, practice questions, extended writing training, exam style questions, moderation exercises, and single line scores for dictation practice. Rehearsing and performing tasks enable students to get hands-on experience connecting melody and harmony of the period. An additional wider listening playlist provides starting points for further questions to broaden and deepen students' understanding of period and genre.
Ask a decent question, get a decent answer
Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: time signatures, simple duple, triple, quadruple, compound duple, triple, quadruple, asymmetric metres, metric change. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.
Three composition workshops with supporting analytical listening resources that focus on the harmonic foundations of countermelody writing, development and elaboration of initial ideas, relationships between melodies and countermelodies, how to complement and enhance without crowding out the melody, effective deployment of countermelodies.
Exam style skeleton score questions and answers for Herrmann 'Psycho' Cellar
