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MUSIC

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT:
MR T OATES
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STAFF:

Teaching Staff: Ms H Bloomfield

KEY STAGE 5:

A Level Music (AQA)


40% Appraising Music (Written Examination), 35% Performance Coursework, 25% Composition Coursework.

  • Performance Skills (solo, ensemble and technology based)

  • Compositional Techniques and Styles

  • Harmony and Counterpoint

  • Musical analysis and score reading / Listening to and appraising music (variety of genres):

Western classical tradition 1650–1910 (compulsory):  Baroque (the solo concerto), Classical (the operas of Mozart), Romantic (the piano music of Chopin, Brahms and Grieg).


Pop music:  Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Muse, Beyoncé, Daft Punk, Labrinth.


Music for media:  Bernard Herrmann, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, Thomas Newman, Nobuo Uematsu.


Music for theatre:  Kurt Weill, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Jason Robert Brown.


Jazz:  Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, Gwilym Simcock.


Contemporary traditional music:  Astor Piazzolla, Toumani Diabaté, Anoushka Shankar, Mariza, Bellowhead.


Art music since 1910:  Dmitri Shostakovich, Olivier Messiaen, Steve Reich, James MacMillan.



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