GCSE Music Booster

AM 9.30 - 11.30
21/5/2016

TASK 1:
Take an A4 sheet, and divide the sheet into 3 sections:
Handel
Mozart
Chopin

Task 2:
Using the blue revision guides, write something down for:
GCSE Music exam paper question focus: 2011-2015
Handel:

4 themes; instrumentation; vocal parts; textures; how is the

uplifting mood achieved?

Mozart:

Features of the 2 Subjects (themes); instrumentation;

structure; keys

Chopin:

structure; compare right hand with left hand; sustain

pedal; dynamics; features of Romantic music?

TASK 3:
GCSE Music exam paper question focus: 2011-2015

Take an A4 sheet, and divide the sheet into 3 sections:

Handel:

Mozart:

Chopin:

4 themes; instrumentation; vocal parts; textures; how is the

uplifting mood achieved?
Schoenberg
Features of the 2 Steve
Subjects Reich
(themes); instrumentation;
structure; keys
Bernstein

Task 4:

structure; compare right hand with left hand; sustain

pedal; dynamics; features of Romantic music?

Using the blue revision guides, write something down for:

Schoenberg:

Style of music, Peripetie means sudden changes - why is

this relevant; features of the melody; Atonal; structure;
Instrumentation

Steve Reich:

Style of music; resultant melody; instruments; features

of minimalism; time signatures; texture; rhythm features

Bernstein:

Word setting; features of Jazz; rhythm features

Chopin:

structure; compare right hand with left hand; sustain

pedal; dynamics; features of Romantic music?

TASK 5:

Take an A4 sheet, and divide the sheet into 3 sections:

Schoenberg:

Steve Reich:

Style of music, Peripetie means sudden changes - why is

this relevant;
features
of the melody; Atonal; structure;
Miles
Davies
InstrumentationMoby

Jeffresultant
Buckley
Style of music;
melody; instruments; features
of minimalism; time signatures; texture; rhythm features

Task 6:

Bernstein:

Word setting; features of Jazz; rhythm features

Miles Davis

Head arrangement; comping; frontline & backline; 12 bar

blues; rhythm features; improvisation

Moby

Verse chords; chorus chords; use of FX; use of technology;

vocal samples; computer-created instruments;

Jeff Buckley

Word setting; falsetto; time signature; harmony; guitar

techniques

Using the blue revision guides, write something down for:

Miles Davis

Moby

TASK 7:

Head arrangement; comping; frontline & backline; 12 bar

blues; rhythm features; improvisation

Using
the blue
revision
Verse chords;
chorus
chords; useguides,
of FX; use of technology;
samples; computer-created
instruments;
write vocal
something
down for each
of the

Yiri points only:

Jeff Buckley

Word setting; falsetto; time signature; harmony; guitar

techniques

Capercaillie -

A3 sheet - completed in class - also on

http://sjhmusichomework.weebly.com

Koko by Yiri

Rhythm features; textures; Call & Response; Tempo/s;

instruments

Rag Desh x 3

A3 sheet - completed in class - also on

http://sjhmusichomework.weebly.com