Year 13, Three things: 1. Attached is our 'thread' that might help you structure an essay on the Wagner. Add it to your notes. 2. Your first task for homework - fill in the grids for each of the Schumann miniatures. 3. Your second task - answer this essay question: To what extent could ‘Yellow Bird’ be described as a piece of folk music? Make reference to instruments and their handling, melody, harmony, rhythm and metre, texture and tonality. (13) Please ask if you have any questions, and remember Thurs after school and Fri lesson 6 are good times to catch me (let me know if you are coming). Mr Guinane
Alex Ross' first book The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is now available in the UK. The book has received a fantastic review from the Saturday Guardian. Read it by clicking here. You can also read more about Alex Ross (the music critic for The New Yorker) by visiting his website/blog by clicking here.