Year 9 Music Work Instructions

Hi everyone! You will see that there are 3 uploaded pdfs labelled like this:

1 Elements of Music Knowledge Organiser

2 Listening List

3 Music Theory Work Book

This is how you should use each of the resources:

1 Elements of Music Knowledge Organiser

Use this knowledge organiser to help you with the ‘2 Listening List’. You could make flashcards to help you

remember each part of the knowledge organiser. To do this, draw the symbol / picture on the front of a

flashcard, and write the musical word on the back. This will help you to remember key words for when you

return to school

2 Listening List

Complete two pages per week of the listening project. Y

You will need to use Youtube / Spotify to listen to each piece.

Instructions on how to use the listening list are on the front page of the ‘Listening List’ pdf.

You will need to use the ‘1 Elements of Music Knowledge Organiser’ and the internet to help you answer the

questions about each piece. You can do this in a notebook / on paper.

Advice = as well as commenting on the musical elements used in each piece, make a note of which pieces you

like and why. You may find that you prefer faster pieces to slow pieces, or orchestral music to solo pieces.

Understanding the types of music you do and do not like will help you to find new pieces of music to listen to.

3 Music Theory Work Book

This work book will help you to remember the work we have been doing in class. Some of the pages in this

booklet include brand new information that you will not have seen before. Try your best to complete as much

of the work book as you can over the coming weeks. I would recommend completing 2 pages a week.

REMEMBER! Listen to as much music as you can for fun while you have the time!

If you have an instrument at home, play and practise as much as you can – you could:

Organise a show for your family

Teach someone at home how to play the instrument you have

See you all soon – Miss. Barnes

This booklet is to help you to prepare for the Listening exam for

GCSE Music. It is worth 40% of your course.

You can search for each of the pieces on Youtube / Spotify for free.

Listen to each of the pieces in the table. Use plain paper to make

comments on each of the pieces. For each piece, you should

comment on the:

Dynamics

Rhythm

Structure

Metre

Melody

Instrumentation

Tonality

Texture

Harmony

You can use the Knowledge organiser to help you with making comments.

Component 3: Appraising (40% of your course)

This is a 1 hour 15 minute exam.

There are 8 questions in total, two on each of the four areas of study.

1) Musical Forms and Devices

2) Music for Ensemble

3) Film Music

4) Popular Music

You have two set works to study:

Badinerie by J.S.Bach for Flute and String Orchestra with Harpsichord (Final movement, Orchestral

Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067)

Africa: Toto (released 1982)

LISTENING LIST

Area of Study 1: Musical Forms and Devices

Binary Date Listened to and comments

Bach Sarabande and Gavotte (‘French’ Suite no. 6) Orchestral Suite no. 3 – Gigue/Gavotte

Handel Music for Royal Firewords (Minuet/Siciliano ‘La Paix’

Ternary

Beethoven Bagatelle in G Minor

Schumann Volksliedchen (Little Folk Song)

Borodin Tartars Dance from Prince Igor

Minuet and Trio

Mozart Symphony no 40, movement 3

Haydn Minuet and Trio from Piano Sonata no. 5

Beethoven Septet in Eb, movement 3

Rondo

Mozart Horn Concerto no. 4 (last movement)

Beethoven Rondo from a Sonatina for piano

Haydn Rondo from Piano Sonata no. 37

Variation

Handel Harmonious Blacksmith

Mozart Variations on ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman’

Delibes ‘Theme Slave Varie’ from Coppelia

Strophic

Schubert Das Wandern

Schubert Heidenröslein

Schumann Dichterliebe, No. 8

Area of Study 2: Music Ensembles

Chamber Date Listened to and comment

Haydn String Quartet no. 66, Finale

Beethoven Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano

Schubert ‘Trout’ Quintet

Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D Minor op. 49

Poulenc Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet op. 100

Carl Nielsen Wind Quintet op. 43

Musical Theatre

Les Miserables

One Day More; A Heart Full of Love

West Side Story

Tonight (Quintet and Chorus – End of act 1)

Miss Saigon I still believe; Last Night of the World

Phantom All I ask of You; ‘Prima Donna’ Scene

The Little Mermaid

If Only – Quartet

Wicked For Good

Witches of Eastwick

I Wish I may

Jazz

Jelly-Roll Morton Trio

Turtle Twist

Louis Armstrong’s Hot 7

Alligator Crawl

Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintet

Salt Peanuts (Featuring Charlie Parker)

Art Tatum Trio

I Got Rhythm

Miles Davies Quintet

Seven Steps to Heaven

Blues

W.C. Handy St Louis Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpp75gQ-T6Y

Best of… Ready for the Blue – 22 Vintage Blues Tracks (One Hour of Blues) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRu60tECT9A

B.B. King YouTube: B.B. King Blues Greatest Hits [Full Album 2015] – BB King Blues Best Songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcbOu8ff_8I

Howlin’ Wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSZxBx_OZOw&list=P L94gOvpr5yt38_C_dhKSVKX3HnsP9F4Tm

Area of Study 3: Music for Film

Date Listened to and comment

Bernard Hermann

Vertigo

Elmer Bernstein

Magnificent Seven

M. Norman Adele

James Bond Theme Skyfall

John Williams Star Wars E.T. Close Encounters of the Third Kind Empire of the Sun (Featuring Suo Gan)

John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, Alexandre Desplat

Harry Potter

Howard Shore Lord of the Rings

Hans Zimmer Da Vinci Code; Jurassic Park; Pirates of the Caribbean; Thin Red Line; The Last Samurai; The Dark Knight Rises

Fernando Velazquez

The Impossible

James Howard The Village

Cave and Ellis The Assassination of Jesse James

John Powell How to Train your Dragon

Ilona Sekacz Solomon and Gaenor

Area of Study 4: Popular Music

Date Listened to and Comment

Catatonia Every Day when I wake up

Beatles Hey Jude; Get Back

Oasis Definitely Maybe

Pulp Common People

The Who Ultimate Collection

AC/DC Back in Black

Sting Englishman in New York

Clapton Layla

Supertramp Breakfast in America

Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run

Elton John Someone Saved my Life tonight I’m Still Standing

Blur Modern Life is Rubbish

Rainbow Long Live Rock n Roll

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody

Stereophonics Dakota A Thousand Trees

Manic Street Preachers

Design for Life This is my truth tell me yours

Take That Back for Good

Justin Bieber As Long as Your love me

Ellie Goulding Love me Like You Do

The Weeknd The Hills

Pharrell Williams

Happy

Justin Timberlake

Mirrors

Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud

Miley Cyrus Wrecking Ball

Adele Hometown Glory

Fusion

Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds

Bach Arrangements

Jacques Loussier

Sister Act Ode to Joy

Horatio Wallbanger with his Rockerstra

Beethoven’s 5th Classical and Rock Fusion

Frederik Magle

Polyphony – Classical and rock music fusion/crossover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBz0Mk5n5Y

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Variations

Gunther Schuller

Variants on a Theme of Thelonius Monk

Jaipur Beats Indian and Western Music Fusion

Deep Purple/LSO

Pictures of Home Smoke on the Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukj-oksoOMs

Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obSNzlupY64 Bohemian Rhapsody/RPO

Mark Anythony Turnage

Blood on the Floor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW3Q2nft7uc

Stravinsky Ebony Concerto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzjjDS9sqt8