Year 13: A2 Music

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Year 13 A2 Music

• Learning Objectives
• To identify key fingerprints of film music
• - To identify common film music devices
• To apply improved knowledge of the elements of
  music and eras to listening extracts

Starter Activity Bach consolidation Recital
discussion and deadlines Film Music Write down
as many ways music can support a film as you
can. To what extent can it govern the audiences
reaction?
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The Film Planet of the Apes

• Made in 1968
• Sci-fi film set in the future about a planet of
  apes (!)
• This scene is the hunt scene where armed apes on
  horseback chase stranded humans
• Jerry Goldsmith wrote much music for American
  film and TV
• He liked to experiment with instrumental sound
• The Hunt.

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Understanding Instrumentation and Timbre

• Full symphony orchestra
• Triple woodwind (bass cl and db bassoon)
• All oboes play cor anglais and flutes piccolo
• Standard brass, no tuba
• Rams horn and Tibetan horn (primitive)
• Ethnic percussion (boo bams b10)
• Electric harp and bass clarinet (b52 squeak)
• Less focus on strings (chordal)
• Brass mutes (b10, 23 and 55)
• Violins have false harmonics (b68)

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The Percussion list 3 interesting percussion
moments!

• Timps on first beat of the bar
• Ethnic instruments show strangeness of the apes
• Vibraslap is unusual and powerful
• Piano has the ostinato figure
• Fragments of xylophone motif
• Side drum rolls bring tension
• All common in Goldsmith, but new in 1968

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Through composed Lots of motifs provide unity
Bars 1-10 C
Bars 11-22 G
Bars 23-37 Eb
Bars 38-44 Changing
Bars 45-51 C
Bars 52-58 Eb
Bars 59-73 G
Bars 74-83 Atonal
84-end Atonal
Homework consolidate and recital preparation
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Texture find each of the following
textures Homophony Polyphony Contrapuntal Hetero
phony Polyrhythms Tutti Simultaneous ostinati
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Melody Motivic Focus on semitones
Riffs Fragments, disjunct 12 tones used bar
8 Retrograde bass bar 23 Inversion bar 27 (of
23)
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Rhythm and METRE Notate 3 exciting
rhythms Locate 3 time signatures Cross
rhythm Fragmented rhythm Syncopated
rhythm Complex rhythm
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Tonality and Harmony Use of dischord link to
other elements Paraphrase and locate the notes
in your score Edexcel and Rushby
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Consolidation and Essays 13 Marks How does the
music reflect a violent hunt?
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Consolidation and Essays 13 Marks Identify
instrumental and textural features of this work
that give evidence that it is from the twentieth
century How does Goldsmith
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• Identify instrumental and textural features of
  this work that give evidence that it is from the
  twentieth century
• Indicative Content

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• Learning Objective
• To be able to show an improved understanding of
  the structure of the listening exam
• To be able to refine use of the elements of music
  to answer an exam question
• Dictation exercise from question 2
• Question 1 practice
• How can you revise effectively for this paper?

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Identify instrumental and textural features of
this work that give evidence that it is from the
twentieth century How does Bernstein create a
sense of the restless gang culture in
NYC? Timing? 9 points need to be made for 13
marks Mark scheme 2012 Language Relevance gt
location gt qualification
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Essays How does Gabrieli set his music to
exploit the cathedral? (13) Please time
yourself..interest not pressure!