Transcript A2 MUSIC 2009-2010

A2 MUSIC
A2 MUSIC OVERVIEW
(Edexcel)
• UNIT 4: EXTENDED PERFORMANCE
(30% A2)
• UNIT 5: COMPOSITION AND
TECHNICAL STUDY (30% A2)
• UNIT 6: FURTHER MUSICAL
UNDERSTANDING (40% A2)
UNIT 4:EXTENDED PERFORMANCE
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Students perform their own devised programme
Students perform for 12 – 15 minutes
Either individually or within a small ensemble
From a score or improvised around a stimulus
Grade 6 is the set standard
Same mark scheme as for AS
Coursework – recorded twice – with and without
audience
8. 14th – 18th March 2011.
UNIT 5: COMPOSITION AND
TECHNICAL STUDY
1. Students complete one composition and one
technical study
2. Composition = a 3 minute piece to a set brief
3. Composition briefs = exploiting instruments /
music for film and tv / music, dance and theatre
4. Technical study = Bach Chorale
5. Coursework – controlled conditions (14 hours for
the composition and 3 for the technical study)
• UNIT 6: FURTHER MUSICAL UNDERSTANDING
1. Listening – to unfamiliar music related to the 2
AOS (Areas of Study). 28 marks
2. Understanding – AOS 3 – Applied Music –
studying 5 extracts and placing them in a
social and historical context. Short note form
answers. 26 marks
3. Understanding – AOS 1 – Instrumental Music –
understanding continuity and change within 7
set works. Comparison essay. 36 marks
LISTENING
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Comparisons
Placing music in context (genre / date /composer)
Identifying keys and chords
Simple aural dictation tasks
UNDERSTANDING
Applied Music = where the music is serving some
wider purpose e.g. for dance; ritual or worship; film
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J.S. Bach – Cantata No. 48 movements I - IV
Schoenberg – ‘Der kranke Mond’ from Pierrot Lunaire
Bernstein – Opening for ‘On the Waterfront’
Williams – E.T. Flying Theme
Tom McElvogue – Jig and Reel
UNDERSTANDING
Continuity and Change in the following
INSTRUMENTAL set works:
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Haydn – Symphony No. 26 in Dm, Movement I
Holborne – Pavane and Galliard
Brahms – Piano Quintet in Fm, op.34, Movement III
J.S. Bach – Partita No. 4 in D – Sarabande and Gigue
Shostakovich – Prelude and Fugue in A, op. 87
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra – Black and Tan Fantasy
Miles Davis Quintet – Four (opening)