Tips: Recognising instruments and composers – watch and listen to how the instruments sound. Follow a score if you can.

 Area of Study 1: Musical Forms and Devices

Listening exercises we have done in class to listen back to:

• Vivaldi Winter watch score and listen here (Baroque example)

Further listening:

Baroque revision for GCSE watch, listen and make notes to remember here

Classical revision for GCSE watch, listen and make notes to remember here

Romantic revision for GCSE watch, listen and makes notes to remember here

MAD T-SHIRT:

• Mozart’s Oboe Concerto watch and listen here (Classical example)
• Bach’s Oboe Concerto watch and listen here (Baroque example)
• Vivaldi Oboe Concerto watch and listen here (Baroque example)
• Mozart Bassoon Concerto watch and listen here (Classical example)
• Chopin’s Nocturne op.9 no.1 for Bassoon and Marimba watch and listen here (Romantic example)
• Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata see the score and listen (Romantic example)
• Gabriel Fauré: Élégie Op. 24 see cello and piano score and listen (Romantic example)
• Brahms Clarinet Sonata no.1 see clarinet and piano score and listen (Romantic example)
• Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 here (Romantic example)
• Handel’s Messiah Hallelujah chorus here (Baroque example)

Area of Study 2: Music for Ensemble

Listening exercises we have done in class to listen back to:

• Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy here

Area of Study 3: Film Music

Listening exercises we have done in class to listen back to:

• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory “I’ve Got a Golden Ticket” here

MAD T-SHIRT:

• Jaws. A full score reduction and analysis of the classic “Jaws” score by John Williams’, starting with the opening title sequence. Watch in full screen. here