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From Present to Past
Research and Reflection
Part One – Music Today
Exercises
Music Definition
Exploring Genres
The Qualities of pop music
Listening to music in film
Listening to Instruments in the orchestra
Exploring contemporary classical composition
Research Point
A week of music
Pop v Classical, what constitutes good music?
World Music
The Orchestra
Living composers and contemporary music
Projects
Score annotation
Part two – 20th Century Music
Exercises
Impressionism, rhythm and pitch
Writing Programme Notes
Music between the wars
Chance and serial music
Shostakovich’s 5th symphony
Exploring composition for percussion
Exploring a graphic score
Research Point
4’33”
Benjamin Britten – Peter Grimes
Graphic Scores
Projects
Scales and structures
Part three – 19th Century Innovations
Research Point
Auxiliary instruments of the orchestra
Wagner
Exercises
Classical and Romantic
Programme music
Mahler
National Identity
The folk tradition
Transcribing for the piano
Go to a concert
Projects
Musical Terms
Part four – The Classical Style
Exercises
Enjoying Classical music
Mozart as court musician
The Mannheim School
The Classical opera
Research Point
Other Classical composers
Period Orchestra
Music publishing up to 1900
Projects
Analysing chords
Part five – Ars Nova, Renaissance and Baroque Music
Exercises
Listen to early music
Baroque forms
The Bach fugue
Musical patronage
Renaissance composers
Research Point
Early instruments
Life and work of a Baroque composer
Dissonance in music
Humanism
Projects
Early music notation
Tuning systems
Listening Log
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