Music Stage 5

Hello Yr 9.

We are well into the term and our contract work.

The following links will help you hear and analyse the music for your Minor Listening Task.

Be sure to always refer to the Concepts of Music when analysing a piece.

• Click here to download the score of Mozart’s Requiem - Dies Irae as Jpeg Files for your powerpoints.

Here is the Dies Irae Score as a PDF also.

Here is the recording of the Mozart Requiem - Dies Irae.

• Click here to download the score of Mozart’s Requiem - Lacrimosa as Jpeg Files for your powerpoints.

Here is the Lacrimosa Score as a PDF also.

Here is the recording of the Mozart Requiem - Lacrimosa.

Over this term you will have the opportunity to work on a project that interests you at your own pace.  It will cover the three course components: Performing; Composing; and Listening. You will need to decide which of these three will be your Major Assignment and this choice will then determine your two Minor Assignments.

For example: I choose the performance major assignment, therefore I do the two minor assignments for composition and listening.

Please think carefully about what you would like to do as there will be regular checkpoints throughout the term to make sure you are working consistently. You will also need to have decided by Week 2!!

Major Components - You choose ONE from

EITHER:

• Performing - Performance of a Classical Era piece (either traditionally or reworked)

OR

• Composing - Compose a work using Classical characteristics up to 3mins in length (instrumentation up to you)

OR

Listening - Research the “Mozart Effect” and create a listening game for yr7/yr8 using the music of Mozart.  You can present your assignment in any format.

Minor Components - You will end up completing TWO

EITHER:

Performing - Perform a part from a peers’ arrangement

OR

Composing - Arrange a Haydn work for 4 instruments (score is given to you)

OR

Listening - Create a powerpoint presentation/podcast on ONE of the following works…

• The Marriage of Figaro
• The Magic Flute
• Mozart’s Requiem

You will need to analyse the work and show this in your presentation.

Here is a Mindmap Yr 9a created to hep them remember key characteristics of the Baroque Era.

Baroque Music Mindmap

The following links are revision tests, pages for research and areas where you can revise for the music half yearly exam.

1. http://www.musicappreciation.com/

Click ‘practice tests’ then ‘test 3′ and you can revise for the half yearly with a quiz and its answers!

2. These links are quite useful for revision and research - just copy them and paste them into your browser
http://baroque-music.com/
http://www.baroquemusic.org/bardefn.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music
http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/m345/Baroque_Music1.html
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/concise/ch9_outline.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/27927/Baroque_Characteristics.htm
http://www.culturekiosque.com/klassik/features/ra1baroq.htm - Instruments
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2233/2233.htm - Everything
http://www.classicalworks.com/his.pages/1626to1650.htm - Timeline
http://www.seattlebaroque.org/education/instruments.htm - Meet the Instruments
http://www.seattlebaroque.org/education/timeline.htm - Timeline!

Thank you to those students who will come up with wonderful questions for this Concerto Grosso by Vivaldi in G Minor.

Here is the piece:

TASK:

Make up a series of 15 questions based upon the score provided and this video. Use the characteristics of the Baroque era we have studied in class.

Present the score with pencil markings showing the answers and the questions on a piece of paper to Mr Wright next lesson.

• Year 9 Assessment Schedule
•  Year 10 Assessment Schedule

As of Term 1…

First, you will need to reference the audio file for Handel’s Messiah For Unto Us a Child Is Born. Just click here and it will load for you to play it: Handel-For Unto Us - mp3 Audio

Then, if you don’t have a hard copy already, you will need to reference the score:

Page 1/4    Page 2/4    Page 3/4    Page 4/4

TIP: If you are unable to print the score pages, open the mp3 file and score pages in separate tabs on your browser for fast page turns and be sure to make specific reference to the appropriate bar numbers in your responses.

Listen to the mp3 file of For Unto Us a Son is Born from Handel’s Messiah. As you listen, label on the score the following features: 

1. Name all the instruments and label the staves correctly
2. Highlight 3 examples of figured bass
3. Circle 3 examples of doubling
4. Label 3 bars showing examples of repetition
5. Circle 5 examples of sequences
6. Find and label 2 examples where one voice immediately copies another (imitation)
7. Define the term contrapuntal music
8. What is the texture of this excerpt:
   1. At the beginning?
   2. In the middle?
   3. At the end?
9. Highlight the dynamic markings and write a definition beside each
10. Find the following symbols in the music and explain their meaning:
    1. tutti
    2. [tr]
    3. The two arrowheads (in bar 37)

Extension Activity - Provide a page of research into Handel’s life and music. You must include a bibliography/references. You may use YouTube or other sites to listen to/watch performances of his music. Be sure to include any sites in your bibliography/references. 

Vivaldi Lute Concerto RV93

Listed here are a series of jazz videos you are to watch and analyse for your Listening Tasks.

Remember to choose 2 and fill out the listening log sheets in as much detail as possible.

1. Wave (James Moody)

2. Snowman (Jan Garbarek)

3. Dave Weckl

4. So What (Miles Davis)

5. Round Midnight (Miles Davis)

6. What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)

7. Mack the Knife (Robbie Williams)

8. Night & Day (Ella Fitzgerald)

9. Tequila & Four on Six (George Benson etc)

10. Chameleon (Herbie Hancock)

11. Please Don’t Talk About Me (Billie Holiday)

12. Ain’t Misbehavin (Muppets)

13. St Louis Blues (Dizzy Gilespie)

14. Don’t Know Why (Norah Jones)

15. A Gal in Callico (Oscar Peterson Trio)

16. Little Brown Jug

17. My Last regret (Robert Cray)

18. Summertime (Fantasia)

19. Orange Coloured Sky (Natalie Gauci)

20. Jazz Fusion

Year 9 have read an article about the phenomenon ‘Funtwo’ created on YouTube when he recorded himself playing the ‘Canon Rock’ originally written by Pachelbel. He didn’t play Vai, Slash, Clapton, Satriani or Metallica. Instead he ‘rockafied’ a very difficult piece to play on the guitar from the Baroque Era. Year 9A were then asked to research a baroque composer and find two videos showing a composer’s works in a traditional style, and then a ‘revamped style.’ This is what they have come up with.

• Ischabel - Henry Purcell

Traditional

Revamped

• Isaac - Vivaldi

Traditional

Revamped

• Tim - J.S. Bach

Traditional

Revamped

• Kassandra - Vivaldi

Traditional

Revamped

• Nicholas - Purcell

• Gabbi - Vivaldi

Traditional

Revamped

• Zach - Pachelbel

Traditional

Revamped

• Max - Purcell

Traditional

Characteristics of Jazz

• tone colour (instrumentation)
• improvisation
• use of the blues chord progression
• scat singing

Early Jazz