music S T E P U P T O S I X T H F O R M KEY INFO: Faculty: Creative and Social Course Title: A-Level Music Exam Board: AQA Course Textbook: AQA A Level Music Revision Guide Paperback – 15 Aug. 2017 ACTIVITIES: 1. Continue to rehearse on your instrument(s). 2. Prepare a performance to be performed in front of a small audience as your first assessment in Year 12. 3. Begin creating your own musical ideas that you may wish to use in your Free Composition. Musescore: Free download https://musescore.org/en Sibelius First: Free limited version: https://my.avid.com/get/sibelius-first 4. Familiarise yourself with Music Theory: - Treble and Bass Clef - The circle of 5ths - Cadences and modulation - Definitions of the Music Elements and what each term means (Dynamics, Rhythm and Metre, Texture, Structure, Melody, Instrumentation, Tonality and Harmony. 5. Suggested Listening (Popular Music): Daft Punk Joni Mitchell - Around the World, from Homework (1997) - Big Yellow Taxi, from Ladies of the - Once More Time, from Discovery (2001) Canyon (1970) - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, from - River, from Blue (1971) Discovery (2001) - Carey, from Blue (1971) - Get Lucky, from Random Access Memories - A Case of You, from Blue (1971) (2013) - Help Me, from Court and Spark (1974) Labrinth Steve Wonder - Earthquake, from Electronic Earth (2012) - For Once in my Life, from Fore Once in my - Express Yourself, from Electronic Earth Life (1968) (2012) - Signed, Sealed, Delivered, from Signed - Beneath Your Beautiful, from Electric Sealed, Delivered (970) Earth (2012) - Superstition, from Talking Book (1972) - Let it Be, from Take Me To The Truth (2015) - You are the Sunshine of My Life, from - Jelously, from Take Me To The Truth (2015) Talking Book (1972) - Sir Duke, from Songs in the Key of Life More Suggested Listening: Muse Beyonce - Stockholm Syndrome from Absolution - Crazy in Love, from Dangerously in (2003) Love (2003) - Supermassive Black Hole, from Black - Listen, from B’day (2006) Hole and Revelations (2006) - Single Ladies, from I am….Sasha Fierce - Uprising, from The Resistance (2009) (2008) - Supremacy, from The 2nd Law (2012) - Best Thing I Never Had, from 4 (2011) USEFUL ONLINE LINKS: This is a playlist with all the AQA A Level set works included: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYrvOQiCx4I&list=PLSojYvM5fDsTT65CdYE9M8tfgOxx18yVX YouTube playlist - Area of Study 1: Western Classical Music 1650-1910: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWeq8xH- 5A&list=PLsCaylOgteYv7YwSn_HbrOs5e9yM2NNuy PODCASTS: Muscality Now - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the- musicality-podcast/id1281031248?mt=2 TV AND FILM: Originally on the BBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=9rZagOjCnKQ&fbclid=IwAR1RERe3wCzM2aQ0 Zsy_E_Nr3cvHkRI4UOrTR8kw0MymOCDYS3Ndfq 5MNnI WIDER READING: The Music of Joni Mitchell Stevie Wonder: A Musical Guide to the Classical Albums Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings. For further information please contact the Sixth Form team ([email protected]) who will be happy to forward your email to the relevant department..