Year 9 Listening test and work for 29th November 2018.

Dear year 9. Watch this video, listen CAREFULLY to the orchestral instruments and complete the worksheets your teacher hands to you.

This is NOT COVER WORK, but work you need to do to develop your aural training, so do read your task carefully and complete it fully. 

I know you can behave immaculately. Students who caused trouble during these lessons will not be allowed on practical once I return. 

Peter and the Wolf

And Carnival of the Animals:

Rewards:

For 1 I.D point. Watch the videos carefully and silently, complete the comparative sheets as you go along. Each bit is 30 minutes long, so DO NOT leave it until the videos are done.

For 2 I.D points: complete all worksheets. Ensure you have put your name on the sheet. 

Remember: Pitch: High or low

                    Timbre: Tone colour (what type of instrument? Brass/Woodwind/String etc)

Here are some help with key terms to use when completing the worksheets.

                     

For extra credit complete the worksheets below. 

Dear year 9.  You will be working on Macs this lesson to complete the listening requirements of your tasks this half-term.

Reminder of your ONGOING DAILY homework of preparing for your Ukulele practical in December. You can use one of the academy's Ukulele's, rehearsal times available in Room 207 is Tuesday-Thursday 3.40-4.30.  See the UKULELE page on the blog for more information on pieces you can learn.

Starter: Sign on to the Macs. You should be working by yourself.  

Task 1: Please use the following 2 videos to complete your worksheets on Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra:

- Complete the listening task that accompanies the videos below. Gain 1 I.D point

Year 11 Work for Wednesday 28/11

Dear cover teacher, thank you for taking this lesson. Please do not allow any year 11 students to retrieve their coursework folder if they can not show you their completed work for ALL OF THE WORK I SET BELOW.

For those students that have completed their work, they can retrieve their coursework folder from the teacher desk (they are not tallowed to leave the class with any of the documents in there), check their marks (There is also an excel sheet with marks on the Mac Shared) and respond to my feedback.
It's in Mac Shared/ Year 11 Mock exam November 2018/Year 11 Coursework marked with feedback.



Dear year 11.  I have marked all your coursework and apart from those fews students who put no effort into their coursework, overall your coursework went surprisingly well.

I will drop off your marked coursework at school ready for your double lesson tomorrow, after which you will need to spend 2 weeks responding to the feedback and spending time after school in coursework clinic to make sure you do all the amendments needed for your second draft deadline which is Tuesday 11th December 2018 

As with regards to your written paper, the news is less good. About a third of you never even bothered to take your booklets/workbooks/study guides out of the classroom to prepare for your exam... YOU CAN NOT WRITE THIS PAPER ON GENERAL KNOWLEDGE!!! 

Lesson 2 WORK (THIS IS FOR ACTUAL WORK- I WILL MARK THIS AND USE IT FOR DATA- PUT FULL EFFORT IN. I'M HAPPY FOR IT TO BE TYPED)

In an effort to start some proper revision (and essay writing skills) I need you to complete the following in your two lessons today.  

Please redo this essay question from your Mock exam.

Here is the audio clip:

Step 1: They ask for musical elements. It's MRS DI HAT you people!
When you get the question, start making notes. First write down your structure: 

1. Melody
2. Rhythm
3. Structure
4. Dynamics
5. Instrumentation
6. Harmony
7. Articulation
8. Tempo/Time Signature

Below are some sheets to help you define these elements of music.

Melody

Rhythm

Structure

Dynamics

Instrumentation

Harmony

Articulation

Texture

Tempo/Time Signature

Step 2:Then listen to the piece (and using the sheets I have added above) every time you recognise a feature, write it in pencil in your planning. e.g.
Melody: step wise/conjunct movement
Rhythm: Triplets or repeated driving rhythms.
Step 3: Now, after the last time it's played (for this piece only listen to it 3 times as per the exam audio). Then you have 6 minutes to write your pencilled notes into a COHERENT essay.  
Step 4: Make sure every element you can identify, is linked to the mood of the music (a chase scene).
So. If you say there is a bass ostinato rhythm, you MUST say to create a driving rhythm and to push the pace of the music forward to build tension for the chase.

Use the sheets below to aid your writing.

IMPORTANT: Most of you lost so many marks by using the wrong name (Melody, then talked about rhythm or e.g the dynamics was very thick...what???!!)
You also would keep rambling on about 1 key element when there are 9/10 other subheadings you could be adressing!

LESSON 7: WORK.  I expect both tasks to be completed before you can get your coursework back tomorrow.

Use what you have worked on last lesson to write another essay, comparing the two versions of Queen's Bohemian rhapsody.

Write about:

• Structure (what is the structure of this piece, how is it revolutionary to other pop/rock songs of that time? I'm happy for you to very quickly -no more than 5 mins-research this on the net),
• Instruments used,
• Tempo (when is it fast and when is it slow. Link this to structure),
• Texture,
• Articulation,
• Performance context (where/why/how is each piece performed?)

Video 1: School choir performing Bohemian Rhapsody.

Video 2 (From one of my favourite movies ever. E-VER :) 

Year 9 cover work

Dear year 9. Watch this video, listen CAREFULLY to the orchestral instruments and complete the worksheets your teacher hands to you.

I know you can behave immaculately. Students who caused trouble during these lessons will not be allowed on practical next week once I return. 

Peter and the Wolf

And Carnival of the Animals:

Rewards:

For 1 I.D point. Watch the videos carefully and silently, complete the comparative sheets as you go along. Each bit is 30 minutes long, so DO NOT leave it until the videos are done.

For 2 I.D points: complete all worksheets. Ensure you have put your name on the sheet. 

Remember: Pitch: High or low

                    Timbre: Tone colour (what type of instrument? Brass/Woodwind/String etc)

Here are some help with key terms to use when completing the worksheets.

                     

For extra credit complete the worksheets below. 

Dear year 9.  You will be working on Macs this lesson to complete the listening requirements of your tasks this half-term.

Reminder of your ONGOING DAILY homework of preparing for your Ukulele practical in December. You can use one of the academy's Ukulele's, rehearsal times available in Room 207 is Tuesday-Thursday 3.40-4.30.  See the UKULELE page on the blog for more information on pieces you can learn.

Starter: Sign on to the Macs. You should be working by yourself.  

Task 1: Please use the following 2 videos to complete your worksheets on Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra:

- Complete the listening task that accompanies the videos below. Gain 1 I.D point

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra part 1

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra part 2

Extension
1. Complete the fill in sheet on all 4 families of the orchestra to gain 2 I.D points of your work this lesson.

2. Complete the research sheet on all 4 families.  All three pieces of work will be taken in on Monday 19th November 2018. The 2nd Extension will be ongoing to be completed and presented to the class on 22nd November. 

MONDAY 19th NOVEMBER 
Make sure the worksheets above are all completed. You will be expected to know this work inn your assessment in December.

3. Complete the assessment task on the instruments of the orchestra. 
You must listen to the following clips and answer the work at the bottom of your assessment.
The worksheet looks like this:

The Swan- Saint Saens.

Gavotta – Prokofiev

Thursday 22nd November

1. Complete 1 Wider Listening diary page

Listen to The set work: Rainbow- Since you been gone. Compare it to Queen: We are the champions.

2. listen to the set work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart. 

Compare  it to Chopin's Fantasie Imprormptu op.60

Using your wider listening diary. 

              

Students who are Completed with all their work above (MUST be able to show the teacher all of the worksheets above, and with the teacher's approval may be allowed to get a ukulele (tune according to a ukulele video on youtube) and work on a Christmas carol as according to the Ukulele Page on this blog.

Year 11 work for 20/11 and Wednesday 21/11

Learning objective:  To develop your Sibelius skills.  To develop your arranging as well as your aural skills.

Task: Create a Sibelius file (save in Mac shared in your GCSE folder.)  Press CMD and I to create various orchestral parts (use the video below to help you choose which instruments to use) and create an arrangement of 'In the hall of the mountain king'. I have added scores with different parts to aid your input process. Make Sure you make the key in d minor and the time signature in 4/4

Here is a sibelius short cut sheet to aid your writing. 

Year 9 work for Monday 19th November and Thursday 22nd November.

Dear year 9.  Apologies for being away this Thursday, I am having an operation on my hand but will be with you next week to continue your learning on the keyboards.  You will be working on Macs this lesson to complete the listening requirements of your tasks this half-term.  You should complete this work at home.

Reminder of your ONGOING DAILY homework of preparing for your Ukulele practical in December. You can use one of the academy's Ukulele's, rehearsal times available in Room 207 is Tuesday-Thursday 3.40-4.30.  See the UKULELE page on the blog for more information on pieces you can learn.

Starter: Sign on to the Macs. You should be working by yourself.  

Task 1: Please use the following 2 videos to complete your worksheets on Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra:

- Complete the listening task that accompanies the videos below. Gain 1 I.D point

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra part 1

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra part 2

Extension
1. Complete the fill in sheet on all 4 families of the orchestra to gain 2 I.D points of your work this lesson.

2. Complete the research sheet on all 4 families.  All three pieces of work will be taken in on Monday 19th November 2018. The 2nd Extension will be ongoing to be completed and presented to the class on 22nd November. 

MONDAY 19th NOVEMBER 
Make sure the worksheets above are all completed. You will be expected to know this work inn your assessment in December.

3. Complete the assessment task on the instruments of the orchestra. 
You must listen to the following clips and answer the work at the bottom of your assessment.
The worksheet looks like this:

The Swan- Saint Saens.

Gavotta – Prokofiev

Thursday 22nd November

1. Complete 1 Wider Listening diary page

Listen to The set work: Rainbow- Since you been gone. Compare it to Queen: We are the champions.

2. listen to the set work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart. 

Compare  it to Chopin's Fantasie Imprormptu op.60

Using your wider listening diary. 

              

Students who are Completed with all their work above (MUST be able to show the teacher all of the worksheets above, and with the teacher's approval may be allowed to get a ukulele (tune according to a ukulele video on youtube) and work on a Christmas carol as according to the Ukulele Page on this blog.

Instruments of the orchestra: exam practise

Go on this link to practise your aural knowledge of instruments of the orchestra.

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/374799720679211009