Music group rehearsals for 7th Feb performance!!

All music exams week 22-25 January

Make sure you are able to perform your practical work:
Year 7: Stay with me on the Ukulele.
Year8: Perform 3 little birds by using the Riddim and Skank in C,F and G.
GCSE: You will write an elements of music and key words test on Tuesday 23/1/18.

Soul Choir starts back up on Monday 15th January 2.50pm

Anyone interested in joining soul choir come along to our first rehearsal on Monday 15th January at 2.50pm.  Our first performance is on the 8th of February, so there's lots of music making to be made!

Class work for 13/11 & 14/11

You have several items to complete for me for 20/11.

1. Make sure your listening task from half term is completely done. If you have submitted half work I will be most unhappy..
2. Complete your MRS DI HAT for your three pieces.
Hint: choose 3 songs you know very well. Mr. Chambers, your must first decide which style you will compose in and then go and research 3 songs in that style. No Mozart yet!
3. Once you have completed task 1&2 you are to go back to your composition and amend it according to the feedback I gave you as well as the information you have gained by researching your three songs:
Your task now is:
a) listen to your composition;
b) write a MRSDIHAT of your composition just like you did in 2.
c) write up a plan how you will improve your MRSDIHAT
d) start composing. For quite a few of you you will have to START FROM SCRATCH. Don't worry, you will be better every time you try.

NEW DEADLINE of your FIXED compositions are 20/11/17.

Anyone not 100% on task will have their names sent to me and I will make sure they have a DOL detention.

Class and homework for 6th November-20th November 2017

Hello! Here is your work for this half-term.

Deadline reminder: Your first official music performance exam will take place on Monday 4th December 2017.  You must bring your sheet music to class and be prepared to perform your piece IN FRONT OF THE REST OF THE CLASS.  Your performance will be recorded for feedback purposes. (i.e. PRACTISE PRACTISE PRACTISE!!)

Lesson1      6/11:

SIT 1, for ALL students.

You have not listened to enough similar compositions.

Task 1: Find 3 songs similar to the piece you composed in style. Listen to each piece on YouTube and complete the following work.

Create a WORD document (Save it in the GCSE Music folder in Mac Shared. File name. Your name and SURNAME Workbook. 

E.g. Yolandy Griffith GCSE Music Workbook

Write the date and topic (GCSE Composition research).

Name of song 1:

1. Style of the song.

2. MRS DI HAT. Make a comment on each of these headings.

M: Melody

R: Rhythm(beat)

S: Structure

D: Dynamics

I: Instrumentation

H: Harmony (chords used)

A: Accompaniment

T: Texture (Layers of music)

Do the same for piece 2 and 3. THIS IS YOUR FIRST HOMEWORK to complete FOR 20/11.

Improvement2: Once you have created your file I will copy the work in it for you.

Lesson 2:  Listening task feedback.  

Pair up. You will be issued with a set work to give feedback on.  You must have your listening homework ready at the START of the lesson. You will have 5 minutes to prepare feedback to the rest of the class.

Last 20 minutes. We will be moving the keyboards into the practical music room in preparation of your next lesson with me which will take place in that classroom. 

GCSE Music classwork for 6th November 2017

Hello Lovelies! Thank you for everyone's compositions today. Here is your homework and classwork to be completed by the 6th of November.

Edexcel GCSE Music

Set works

Area of Study 1: Instrumental Music 1700–1820

1.         J.S. Bach: 3rd Movement from Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 in D major

2.         L. van Beethoven: 1st Movement from Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor ‘Pathétique’

Area of Study 2: Vocal Music

3.         H. Purcell: Music for a While

4.         Queen: Killer Queen (from the album ‘Sheer Heart Attack’)

Area of Study 3: Music for Stage and Screen

5.         S. Schwartz: Defying Gravity (from the album of the cast recording of Wicked)

6.         J. Williams: Main title/rebel blockade runner (from the soundtrack to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)

Area of Study 4: Fusions

7.         Afro Celt Sound System: Release (from the album ‘Volume 2: Release’)

8.         Esperanza Spalding: Samba Em Preludio (from the album ‘Esperanza’)

For each set work do the following by 6^th November 2017:

1.         Listen to each set work. You will find the set work list on the music blog: 

\www.harrisinvictusmusic.blogspot.co.uk

2.         Research the following information:

a)       Name of the piece of music

b)      Year it was composed in.

c)       The Style of the piece (e.g. concerto/song/sonata etc)

d)      Write a short biography about the composer (DOB, country of birth, 2 interesting facts about their lives)

e)       List the instruments found in the piece.  Organise the instruments according to their instrument families (e.g. Violin, viola, cello, double bass are all strings so should be together).

f)         Where was the piece first performed.

g)    Write 2 musical points that you can hear about each piece.  Ideas to write about are: 

Rhythm, Pitch, Melody, Texture, Structure, Dynamics.