Music Stage 5

• 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