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 audience’s reaction?

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…. The Film “Planet of the Apes”

 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) Understanding Instrumentation and Timbre

 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 The Percussion – list 3 interesting percussion moments!

Through composed Lots of motifs provide unity… Bars 1-10C Bars 11-22G Bars 23-37Eb Bars 38-44Changing Bars 45-51C Bars 52-58Eb Bars 59-73G Bars 74-83Atonal 84-endAtonal Homework – consolidate and recital preparation

Texture – find each of the following textures Homophony Polyphony Contrapuntal Heterophony Polyrhythms Tutti Simultaneous ostinati

Melody * Motivic * Focus on semitones * Riffs * Fragments, disjunct * 12 tones used bar 8 * Retrograde bass bar 23 * Inversion bar 27 (of 23)

Rhythm and METRE Notate 3 exciting rhythms Locate 3 time signatures Cross rhythm Fragmented rhythm Syncopated rhythm Complex rhythm

Tonality and Harmony Use of dischord – link to other elements Paraphrase and locate the notes in your score Edexcel and Rushby

Consolidation and Essays 13 Marks How does the music reflect a violent hunt?

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 …

Identify instrumental and textural features of this work that give evidence that it is from the twentieth century Indicative Content

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?

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 > location > qualification

Essays How does Gabrieli set his music to exploit the cathedral?(13) Please time yourself…..interest not pressure!