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Year 11: Jazz

Hi Year 11, We spoke about the 12 bar blues in Jazz, and about how easy it is to hear once you are used to how the progression sounds. Below is a Spotify playlist to demonstrate what I mean. Listen to these tracks, enjoy them, and try to identify where the 12 bar blues starts and finishes. I will add more tracks over the coming weeks. Any questions please come and see me. I promise not to blabber on too much about jazz. Mr. Guinane

Year 12 Homework: Schubert

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Year 12, A reminder of your homework for this week: For the Schubert set work, tell me the features of the work that are stylistic of German Romantic Lieder. BUT, group your points into melody, structure, harmony etc. Due Tuesday 5/2. Come find me if you have any issues. Thanks, Mr. Guinane

Year 10 Homework: Colour Symphony

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Year 10, Your homework this week is to complete the 'Descriptive Music' sheet for ONE movement of the Bliss Colour Symphony. The links are below: Due WEDS 6TH FEB. Come find me if you have any problems. Thanks. Mr. Guinane Purple: Red: Blue: Green:

Berlin Rooming and other info

We have now received details of rooming at the Youth Hostel in Berlin.  You need to get yourselves into rooms according to size and then turn up at the start of breaktime on Friday 1st February to register your desired combination.  Please don't forget, just because it's a room you want, you might not necessarily get it, depending on who else wants what.  Everyone needs a bed so don't leave anyone out, especially if they don't know many people.  If you have no idea what room you want to be in (or don't really mind) then please come to the meeting and we will allocate you a room.  You won't be there for very long so it shouldn't really matter. Boys: 3 rooms of 5 beds 1 room of 4 beds Girls: 5 rooms of 4 beds 4 rooms of 5 beds If you are in Years 7 to 11, you will receive your phone chain letter in your trays.  6th form, please come and collect them from Ms Doan's pigeon hole. All of the concerts are open to the public, and as fa...

GCSE Study Guide

A few Year 11 students have been asking about the revision guide. Click here to view the blog post from last year about this book. Click here to access the Spotify playlists for your specification.

Berlin: Choir Playlist

Please see below for the playlist for Berlin Tour Choir.  Please listen and get learning!  We only have 3 weeks until tour!

Concert Band: Tuesday 22nd January

Concert Band is ON tomorrow morning at 7.45am unless there are any drastic changes to the weather.  It will be icy so please be careful.   This is the last rehearsal for non-Berliners (that's students not going to Berlin, not donuts - German students will get it) so please make every effort to attend. See you then! Ms Doan