Beaumont School Music Department

Below is the Powerpoint from today's lesson: Programme music describing it View more presentations from hanhdoan . Homework: Using the answers from today's lesson, write a paragraph explaining how the music in Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture (8:15-10:35) illustrates the love between Romeo and Juliet. Please refer to instruments, rhythm, melody, texture, pitch, dynamics and any other relevant features. Don't forget to LINK it to the stimulus. Due: Thursday 1st July 2010 **NB. It is now possible to download Spotify without an invitation. Please do so before the rules change again. I will be using it more frequently in Year 11 so please take advantage of this opportunity!**

This is where all your homework will be posted, as well as links to documents and spotify playlists for missed lessons. Please do the following this summer: 1. Arrange your music files as discussed 2. Complete listening log grid 3. Complete both sides of the harmony sheet 4. Ensure you have read your booklet and the "What can I do now?" section 5. Sign up to Spotify - do immediately as access often changes. Use the email above if you have any queries. Click here for the Spotify link to your prescribed works. This will open up in your Spotify account and any changes I make to it will also appear in your playlist!

Welcome back! Click here for the link to your course content and criteria for G355 (Stylistic techniques). For homework, please complete the cadences in exercises i, ii and iii of the sheet from today's lesson. Click here to purchse Hugh Benham's A2 Harmony Workbook for the OCR.

A good way of revising for the essay questions is to come up with a bank of examples upon which you can draw depending on the essay title. I have shared this document with you which might help you start. Please do save a separate copy for yourself before editing. You can then do the same for the other works. Don't forget the key is to demonstrate that you have knowledge of usually two extensive passages from each work and a contemporary work. By using this grid system, you can cover double check that this is the case. The important thing is to make sure your grid is thorough. Then you can plan the essays I have given you and write some if you can. Good luck!

Here is the powerpoint used in today's lesson: Thursday 27 th May 2010. Programme music symphonic music from 1820 onwards - intro View more presentations from hanhdoan . Homework: Listen to Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture on the Spotify playlist (or click here to go directly to it) from 5:57-7:25. Complete the 1st table of your handout , noting any features which reflect the conflict between Romeo and Juliet. Due: Tuesday 8 th June 2010

A suggested essay structure for G356, Section B has been shared with you on Google Docs . Those not in the A2 group can find it by clicking here . I have made it clear that you need to do some wider reading. The extract from Dahlhaus ' Nineteenth Century Music which I gave you a while back can also be found on Google Books by clicking here . You need to read from page 192-217. As well as reading about the composers specifically, make sure you read generally around the subject too. I will post more suggestions later. Essay practice is now down to you. You have a list of them which you need to cover before your exam. You must also revisit Dido and Aeneas and Venus and Adonis as it's been a while since we have studied or written about them.

The document has been shared via your Google Docs account. You can also click here to download it. The Spotify Playlist for this lesson can be found here.