IGCSE music self study programme.
This is the outline to a self-study programme within AIS to complete the IGCSE music program. The students will expect to complete the tasks and the coursework to comply with the course. All assignments and tasks will available online along with a series of lessons in order to assist the student taking the IGCSE music course.
The IGCSE music coursework consists of
2 – Compositions – Ideally showing two different styles of composition, at least 2 minutes long. An audio version of the music and a copy of the score must be included.
2 - The Performances must be at least 3 minutes long each.
To be completed by the 19th March 2016
The IGCSE also consists of one listening paper of 1 hour and 15 minutes. Also including a study of a set work within the listening paper. For 2016 that will be the Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo
For self-study the course will be split into 4 areas.
· Performance
· Composition
· Classical and World Music History
· Music Comprehension (analysis and theory)
Performance,
Performances will regularly take place throughout the school year. They will take place as private recording sessions and school concerts. School recording must take place on the school premises. All performances must be accompanied with a score.
A practise logbook provided by the music department must be kept and will be checked regularly bi-weekly by the Music teacher.
All IGCSE must be part of one ensemble and take part in the main musical performances of the year. (Spring, Summer, Graduation concerts).
Composition,
Between August – December A series of monthly composition tasks will be undertaken and assessed by the Music teacher. These will range in a series of styles to help improve the skills of the student. From December to March students will undertake their final two compositions. These could be extensions from the smaller composition tasks or new compositions.
Composition Log books to be kept and checked Bi-Weekly.
Composition tasks from August – December would include.
· Music for piano
· Writing a Tango
· Music for a String Quartet.
· Writing a choral piece
· Writing a piece of music along a theme
Music History,
Students will demonstrate understanding of music in a variety of mediums including,
· Essays
· Quizzes
· Presentations
· Posters
· Timelines
· Audio Recordings
· Discussions
Music History will cover the topics of
· Music in the Classic Period
· Music in the Romantic Period
· Music in the Baroque Period
· 20th Century Music
· World Music
· Prescribed works
Tasks to understand Music History will be set on a weekly basis. For detailed overview of Music History modules see attached.
Music Comprehension (analysis and theory)
Students will be given bi-weekly tasks to test music comprehension and analysis skills. Students will be encouraged to keep a listening log online to be able to share with other students.
Tasks will include,
· Listening Analysis
· Theory Tests
· Past-Paper Questions
· Terminology
· Essays
· Quizzes
Students will expected to demonstrate understanding in these key areas of General Listening Skills. They should;
• Recognise intervals both aurally and from notation
• Understand Key Signatures
• Recognise and demonstrate the syntax keywords www.quizlet.com
• Understand Metre
• Understand Melody
• Understand Rhythm
• Understand Harmony
• Understand Western Instruments
• Understand Voices SATB
• Understand Structure
• Understand Texture
All tasks will be set online through Weebly and Managebac. With feedback given online, in writing and aurally.
All students will have a copy of the “GCSE music study guide” and a copy of “The enjoyment of music” to assist with their studies.
Appendix
Music History and General Skills – Detailed Outline
Music in the Classical Period
• Classical Musical Instruments
• Piano
• Development of woodwind section
• Classical Composers
• Mozart
• Haydn
• Beethoven (Early)
• Symphony
1st Movement Allegro
2nd Movement Adagio (slow)
3rd Movement Minuet and Trio (3/4 time)
4th Movement Allegro usually in Rondo
• String Quartet
• Chamber Music
• Sacred Music
• Recognising scale/key Major or Minor
• Recognising Metre 2 or 4 beats to bar.
• Rondo Structure
• Sonata Form
Exposition
Development
Recapitulation
• Concerto
Double exposition
Candenza (virtuso passage)
• Ternary Structure
• Minuet and Trio
• Themes and Variations
• Texture
• Cadences
• Crescendo/Diminuedo
• sforzando
• Alberti Bass
• Legato (smooth)
• Staccato (Short and spiky)
Music in the Romantic Period
• Romantic Orchestra/Compare with Classical Orchestra
• Romantic Composers
• Beethoven (Late)
• Chopin
• Mendelssohn
• Liszt
• Johan Strauss
• Tchaikovsky
• Dvorak
• Understanding chromaticism and dissonance
• Lyrical Melodies
• Introduction of Brass section into the orchestra
• Programme Music
• Piano Music (etudes, nocturnes)
• German Lied
• Opera
• Wagner
• Bizet
• Verdi
• Nationalist Composers
• Jean Sibelius
• Leitmotif
Baroque Music
• Baroque Orchestra
• Harpsichord
• Baroque Composers
• Bach
• Handel
• Vivaldi
• Purcell
• Predominantly Homophonic Texture
• Monody
• Basso Continuo
• Figured Bass (notation)
• One mood beginning to end
• Terraced Dynamics
• Binary form (AB)
• Ternary (ABA da capo aria)
• Rondo (ABACA)
• Ritornello (Four seasons)
◦ Tutti (all together)
• Fugue
• Oratorios (large scale sacred music)
• Cantatas (mini Oratorio)
• trio sonato
• Sonata de camera (Home)
• Sonata la chiesa (Church)
• Baroque dances
◦ Allemande 4/4 moderate tempo
◦ Courante 3/2/or 6/4 lively tempo
◦ Sarabande 3/4 time accent on second beat fairly slow
◦ Gigue (Jig) A fast time 6/8
• Concerto Grosso
• Concertino
Twentieth Century Music
• 20th Century Composers
• Claude Debussy
• Prokofiev
• Gustav Holst
• Exploration of new timbres
• Extended uses of rhythm (cross rhythm, polyrhythms, odd time signatures, changes in metre)
• Atonality (harmony no longer subject to tonal relationships)
• Exploration in disjunct melodies
• Expressionism
• Schoenberg
• Whole tone scale
• Serialism
• Neo - Classicism
• Minimalism
• Steve Reich
• Wagner Music Dramas
• Jazz
• George Gershwin
• Scott Joplin
• Swing Rhythms
• Blues Scale
• 12 Bar blues
• Stride Bass
• Accents
• Syncopation
World Music
• India
◦ Raga (indian classical music)
◦ Tala
◦ Texture -Melody and Drone
◦ Pitch bending and Ornaments
◦ Sitar
◦ Bansuri
◦ Tabla
◦ Tambura
◦ Sarod
◦ Sarangi
◦ Alap - The notes of the raga scale introduced with no pulse
◦ Jor - Regular pulse added to the Alap
◦ Gat - Tabla enters
◦ Jhalla - Fast increase in Tempo to finish
• China
◦ Pentatonic Scales
◦ Heterophonic textures
◦ Pitch bending
◦ Ornamentation
◦ Instruments
▪ Erhu
▪ Ch’in
▪ Dizi
▪ Guzheng
◦ Chinese Opera
• Japan
◦ Heterophonic textures
◦ Pentatonic Scales
◦ Yo Scale D-F-G-A-C
◦ In Scale D Eb G A Bb D
◦ Mine - Solo folk songs
◦ Biwa Hoshi - Narrative Song
◦ Instruments
▪ Shakuhachi
▪ Taiko
▪ Koto
▪ Sho
• Indonesia (Gamelan)
◦ Heterophonic texture
◦ Slendro scale C D F G A
◦ Pelog scale D Eb F G# A Bb C
◦ Instruments
▪ Saron
▪ Bonang
▪ Gongs
• Latin America
◦ Argentina
▪ Tango
▪ Syncopation
▪ Homophonic texture
▪ Instruments
▪ Concertina/Accordion/Bandoneon
▪ Piano
▪ Violin
◦ The Andes (Boliva, Columbia, Peru, Chile)
▪ Hocket
▪ Instruments
▪ Panpipes
▪ Spanish guitar
▪ Drums
◦ Brazil
▪ Samba
▪ Polyrhythms
▪ Instruments
▪ Surdo
▪ Caixa
▪ Cuica
▪ Tamborims
◦ Mexico
▪ Mariachi
▪ Instruments
▪ guitarron
▪ vihuela
• Arabian Music
◦ Syncopation
◦ Polyrhythm
◦ Ostinato
◦ Instruments
▪ Oud/Ud
▪ Ney
• African Music
◦ Syncopation
◦ Call and Response
◦ Melisima
◦ Polyrhythm
◦ Ostinato
◦ Instruments
▪ Djembe
▪ Talking Drum
▪ Marimba
▪ Kora
World Prescribed Focus
• African Music
• Arabian Music
Set works
• Rodrigo - Concierto Aranjuez
This is the outline to a self-study programme within AIS to complete the IGCSE music program. The students will expect to complete the tasks and the coursework to comply with the course. All assignments and tasks will available online along with a series of lessons in order to assist the student taking the IGCSE music course.
The IGCSE music coursework consists of
2 – Compositions – Ideally showing two different styles of composition, at least 2 minutes long. An audio version of the music and a copy of the score must be included.
2 - The Performances must be at least 3 minutes long each.
To be completed by the 19th March 2016
The IGCSE also consists of one listening paper of 1 hour and 15 minutes. Also including a study of a set work within the listening paper. For 2016 that will be the Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo
For self-study the course will be split into 4 areas.
· Performance
· Composition
· Classical and World Music History
· Music Comprehension (analysis and theory)
Performance,
Performances will regularly take place throughout the school year. They will take place as private recording sessions and school concerts. School recording must take place on the school premises. All performances must be accompanied with a score.
A practise logbook provided by the music department must be kept and will be checked regularly bi-weekly by the Music teacher.
All IGCSE must be part of one ensemble and take part in the main musical performances of the year. (Spring, Summer, Graduation concerts).
Composition,
Between August – December A series of monthly composition tasks will be undertaken and assessed by the Music teacher. These will range in a series of styles to help improve the skills of the student. From December to March students will undertake their final two compositions. These could be extensions from the smaller composition tasks or new compositions.
Composition Log books to be kept and checked Bi-Weekly.
Composition tasks from August – December would include.
· Music for piano
· Writing a Tango
· Music for a String Quartet.
· Writing a choral piece
· Writing a piece of music along a theme
Music History,
Students will demonstrate understanding of music in a variety of mediums including,
· Essays
· Quizzes
· Presentations
· Posters
· Timelines
· Audio Recordings
· Discussions
Music History will cover the topics of
· Music in the Classic Period
· Music in the Romantic Period
· Music in the Baroque Period
· 20th Century Music
· World Music
· Prescribed works
Tasks to understand Music History will be set on a weekly basis. For detailed overview of Music History modules see attached.
Music Comprehension (analysis and theory)
Students will be given bi-weekly tasks to test music comprehension and analysis skills. Students will be encouraged to keep a listening log online to be able to share with other students.
Tasks will include,
· Listening Analysis
· Theory Tests
· Past-Paper Questions
· Terminology
· Essays
· Quizzes
Students will expected to demonstrate understanding in these key areas of General Listening Skills. They should;
• Recognise intervals both aurally and from notation
• Understand Key Signatures
• Recognise and demonstrate the syntax keywords www.quizlet.com
• Understand Metre
• Understand Melody
• Understand Rhythm
• Understand Harmony
• Understand Western Instruments
• Understand Voices SATB
• Understand Structure
• Understand Texture
All tasks will be set online through Weebly and Managebac. With feedback given online, in writing and aurally.
All students will have a copy of the “GCSE music study guide” and a copy of “The enjoyment of music” to assist with their studies.
Appendix
Music History and General Skills – Detailed Outline
Music in the Classical Period
• Classical Musical Instruments
• Piano
• Development of woodwind section
• Classical Composers
• Mozart
• Haydn
• Beethoven (Early)
• Symphony
1st Movement Allegro
2nd Movement Adagio (slow)
3rd Movement Minuet and Trio (3/4 time)
4th Movement Allegro usually in Rondo
• String Quartet
• Chamber Music
• Sacred Music
• Recognising scale/key Major or Minor
• Recognising Metre 2 or 4 beats to bar.
• Rondo Structure
• Sonata Form
Exposition
Development
Recapitulation
• Concerto
Double exposition
Candenza (virtuso passage)
• Ternary Structure
• Minuet and Trio
• Themes and Variations
• Texture
• Cadences
• Crescendo/Diminuedo
• sforzando
• Alberti Bass
• Legato (smooth)
• Staccato (Short and spiky)
Music in the Romantic Period
• Romantic Orchestra/Compare with Classical Orchestra
• Romantic Composers
• Beethoven (Late)
• Chopin
• Mendelssohn
• Liszt
• Johan Strauss
• Tchaikovsky
• Dvorak
• Understanding chromaticism and dissonance
• Lyrical Melodies
• Introduction of Brass section into the orchestra
• Programme Music
• Piano Music (etudes, nocturnes)
• German Lied
• Opera
• Wagner
• Bizet
• Verdi
• Nationalist Composers
• Jean Sibelius
• Leitmotif
Baroque Music
• Baroque Orchestra
• Harpsichord
• Baroque Composers
• Bach
• Handel
• Vivaldi
• Purcell
• Predominantly Homophonic Texture
• Monody
• Basso Continuo
• Figured Bass (notation)
• One mood beginning to end
• Terraced Dynamics
• Binary form (AB)
• Ternary (ABA da capo aria)
• Rondo (ABACA)
• Ritornello (Four seasons)
◦ Tutti (all together)
• Fugue
• Oratorios (large scale sacred music)
• Cantatas (mini Oratorio)
• trio sonato
• Sonata de camera (Home)
• Sonata la chiesa (Church)
• Baroque dances
◦ Allemande 4/4 moderate tempo
◦ Courante 3/2/or 6/4 lively tempo
◦ Sarabande 3/4 time accent on second beat fairly slow
◦ Gigue (Jig) A fast time 6/8
• Concerto Grosso
• Concertino
Twentieth Century Music
• 20th Century Composers
• Claude Debussy
• Prokofiev
• Gustav Holst
• Exploration of new timbres
• Extended uses of rhythm (cross rhythm, polyrhythms, odd time signatures, changes in metre)
• Atonality (harmony no longer subject to tonal relationships)
• Exploration in disjunct melodies
• Expressionism
• Schoenberg
• Whole tone scale
• Serialism
• Neo - Classicism
• Minimalism
• Steve Reich
• Wagner Music Dramas
• Jazz
• George Gershwin
• Scott Joplin
• Swing Rhythms
• Blues Scale
• 12 Bar blues
• Stride Bass
• Accents
• Syncopation
World Music
• India
◦ Raga (indian classical music)
◦ Tala
◦ Texture -Melody and Drone
◦ Pitch bending and Ornaments
◦ Sitar
◦ Bansuri
◦ Tabla
◦ Tambura
◦ Sarod
◦ Sarangi
◦ Alap - The notes of the raga scale introduced with no pulse
◦ Jor - Regular pulse added to the Alap
◦ Gat - Tabla enters
◦ Jhalla - Fast increase in Tempo to finish
• China
◦ Pentatonic Scales
◦ Heterophonic textures
◦ Pitch bending
◦ Ornamentation
◦ Instruments
▪ Erhu
▪ Ch’in
▪ Dizi
▪ Guzheng
◦ Chinese Opera
• Japan
◦ Heterophonic textures
◦ Pentatonic Scales
◦ Yo Scale D-F-G-A-C
◦ In Scale D Eb G A Bb D
◦ Mine - Solo folk songs
◦ Biwa Hoshi - Narrative Song
◦ Instruments
▪ Shakuhachi
▪ Taiko
▪ Koto
▪ Sho
• Indonesia (Gamelan)
◦ Heterophonic texture
◦ Slendro scale C D F G A
◦ Pelog scale D Eb F G# A Bb C
◦ Instruments
▪ Saron
▪ Bonang
▪ Gongs
• Latin America
◦ Argentina
▪ Tango
▪ Syncopation
▪ Homophonic texture
▪ Instruments
▪ Concertina/Accordion/Bandoneon
▪ Piano
▪ Violin
◦ The Andes (Boliva, Columbia, Peru, Chile)
▪ Hocket
▪ Instruments
▪ Panpipes
▪ Spanish guitar
▪ Drums
◦ Brazil
▪ Samba
▪ Polyrhythms
▪ Instruments
▪ Surdo
▪ Caixa
▪ Cuica
▪ Tamborims
◦ Mexico
▪ Mariachi
▪ Instruments
▪ guitarron
▪ vihuela
• Arabian Music
◦ Syncopation
◦ Polyrhythm
◦ Ostinato
◦ Instruments
▪ Oud/Ud
▪ Ney
• African Music
◦ Syncopation
◦ Call and Response
◦ Melisima
◦ Polyrhythm
◦ Ostinato
◦ Instruments
▪ Djembe
▪ Talking Drum
▪ Marimba
▪ Kora
World Prescribed Focus
• African Music
• Arabian Music
Set works
• Rodrigo - Concierto Aranjuez
