Beaumont School Music Department

Year 13, Alongside your Holborne reading and listening, please watch the following videos and make notes: Part I Part II Part III

Hi Year 13, Please find below some additional Gamelan resources for your reading pleasure. Complex Gamelan Notes Southbank Gamelan Notes Edexcel Gamelan Notes Gamelan Notes (Among two other pieces) Have fun, Mr Guinane

Year 13, From the Mr Guinane archives, for your listening pleasure: Click here to download the highlights of Radio 3's Composer of the Week on Haydn String Quartets. Enjoy!

In case you missed it, a simple one: Plan another of the essays (in lots of detail) from your pack, one of your choice. Continue to listen to Goldsmith and related film scores, and why not delve into some Messiaen (or Poulenc, Isaac?) after your impressive showing with the listening question today? Mr G

Here you go! 13 Mark Scheme 36 Mark Scheme Have a nice Easter. Mr Guinane

Click here for a YouTube study guide related to this work. Enjoy. Mr Guinane

Dear Year 12 and 13, Please find below some amazing videos to help with your revision. Year 12: Brahms Piano Quintet Year 13: Beethoven Septet Year 13 (and 12 if you are really interested): Overview of Musical Styles 1 Year 13 (and 12 if you are really interested): Overview of Musical Styles 2 Year 13 (and 12 if you are really interested): Overview of Musical Styles 3 I hope you find these useful. Mr Guinane

Hello Year 13, Please find below the plan we sketched out this morning. The full essay title is: Compare and contrast the melody , harmony and textures of the Sweelinck , Schumann and Debussy. Above all else, please go for clarity and illustration (examples) when making your points. Due Tuesday 11th February Any questions, shout. Mr Guinane

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

Right. Here is the pack if you didn't get it this week. Your jobs: 1. Go through the harmonic progression table, bars 16-22, and annotate your anthology accordingly. 2. 'Fill-out' the basic essay points as discussed in the image below, with explanations and examples: Email me if you have any questions. Thanks, Mr Guinane

Hi Year 13, Click here to access the files for your Debussy comparison. Mr Guinane

Hi Year 13, In a shocking turn of events, I have decided that though our jazz timeline made a few weeks back was amazing, there exists a better version (shock horror I know). The one fashioned by Mrs Guinane makes more sense, and is more colourful, and can be found here . Enjoy. Also, check out the following two articles: 50 great moments in jazz: The arrival of Duke Ellington 50 great moments in jazz: Duke Ellington develops the 'jungle sound' Thanks, Mr Guinane

Hi Year 13, Click here for the text you will need. This is a meaty piece that analyses this Sweelinck, so: 1. Try and take 10 or so points from it that you believe to be of value in analysing this piece. Extract them from the text. 2. If you don't get something, try and get your head around it. If not, don't worry. 3. Come on Tuesday with two or three things that you don't understand in the text, ready to discuss next lesson. 4. There is a lot of info about music of the time, and other dance form. This is important. Read it. Thanks, Mr Guinane

Year 13, This link  would be a good place to start on your research work. Lots to listen to and read up on. Use this as a springboard, rather than the entirety of your work. Thanks, Mr Guinane

Dear 13, We hope you are enjoying your holidays, getting some rest and working hard. Please find below links to the Edexcel notes for your set works. We hope they will be of some use, but please remember that your own notes, intelligible scribbles in your anthologies and memories of vocalising the Poulenc will be far more valuable. Please let us know if you have any questions. Ms Doan and Mr Guinane Applied Music Johann Sebastian Bach Leonard Bernstein Giovanni Gabrieli Jerry Goldsmith Baris Melampaham (not a guy) Instrumental Music Johannes Brahms Miles Davis Claude Debussy Anthony Holborne Francis Poulenc Steve Reich Joseph Haydn

Hello, Please find your work from today's lesson below. Mr Guinane

Hi, Now that you are beginning to recover from Berlin, a reminder of your homework, due Monday 4th March. 1. Answer one of the two essay questions we planned in class. 2. With another colour, mark the essay according to the mark schemes you have been given. Highlight points worthy of credit and award the essay a mark. The two questions are: 1. How does Bernstein create the sense of a bleak, dockland landscape in On the Waterfront? 2. How is the music for On the Waterfront typical of its time? And finally, to help you, your plans from the lesson:

Hi Year 13, Here are you conglomerated notes on the Reich. I have also included out initial ideas for comparing the Reich and the Poulenc.  I hope they are useful for revision.

Here is your essay which is due in on Wednesday 9th January: Using the 3rd movement of his piano quintet in F minor, give examples of how Brahms combines his study of classical styles and forms with new directions in his music (18).  And finally, here is the recording of your Away in a Manger in the style of New York Counterpoint  from your final lesson of 2012: Hope you are having a nice holiday - see you on Monday!