Year 13: A2 Music Learning Objectives -To identify key fingerprints of film music - To identify common film music devices -To apply improved knowledge.

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 1-10 C

Bars 11-22 G

Bars 23-37 Eb

Bars 38-44 Changing

Bars 45-51 C

Bars 52-58 Eb

Bars 59-73 G

Bars 74-83 Atonal

84-end Atonal

Homework – consolidate and recital preparation

Texture – find each of the following textures

HomophonyPolyphony

ContrapuntalHeterophonyPolyrhythms

TuttiSimultaneous 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 rhythmFragmented rhythmSyncopated rhythmComplex rhythm

Tonality and Harmony

Use of dischord – link to other elements

Paraphrase and locate the notes in your score

Edexcel and Rushby

Consolidation and Essays13 Marks

How does the music reflect a violent hunt?

Consolidation and Essays13 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

examTo 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!