Weblinks and videos for use with 12519 – GCSE Composition Support Pack: Composing Theatre Music
Musical Style
'Hamilton', White House Poetry Jam in 2009.
'I Have Confidence', by Richard Rodgers, from The Sound of Music.
'Double Talk', by Cy Coleman, from City of Angels.
'Phantom of the Opera', by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
'My Shot', by Lin-Manuel Miranda, from Hamilton.
Activity 1
'You're The Top', by Cole Porter
'Get Down', by Toby Marlow
'Footloose', by Kenny Loggins
'Some Enchanted Evening', by Richard Rodgers
Activity 2
'Farmer Refuted', by Lin-Manuel Miranda, from Hamilton.
Tempo, Rhythm and Metre
Activity 4
'Getting Married Today', Company, by Stephen Sondheim
'Getting to Know You', The King and I, by Richard Rodgers.
'With Every Breath I Take', City of Angels, by Cy Coleman.
'Moving Too Fast', The Last 5 Years, by Jason Robert Brown.
Rhythm and Cultural Background
'America', West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein
Melody
Activity 9
'Climb Every Mountain', The Sound of Music, by Richard Rodgers 0:27–2:21.
'Everything's Coming Up Roses', Gypsy, by Jule Styne 0:00–0:17.
Harmony and Tonality
Activity 12
'You're The Top', Anything Goes, by Cole Porter
'Same But Different', Islander, by Finn Anderson
'Moving Too Fast', The Last 5 Years, by Jason Robert Brown
'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables', Les Misérables, by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Tonality and drama
'I Know Things Now', Into The Woods, by Stephen Sondheim.
Texture
'One Day More', Les Misérables, by Claude-Michel Schönberg
'Cool', West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein
Countermelody
'No One Is Alone', Into The Woods, by Stephen Sondheim.
Activity 18
'Being a Villain', Only Fools and Horses, by Paul Whitehouse (arranged by Stuart Morley).
'Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats', Cats, by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
'Another Hundred People', Company, by Stephen Sondheim.
Texture
Activity 20
'White Christmas', by Irving Berlin
'Dead Girl Walking', by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy
'When You Come Home to Me', by Jason Robert Brown.
Structure
Activity 21
'Some Enchanted Evening', South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
Activity 22
'No Way', SIX, by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss
Sonority
Robert Russel Bennett
Jonathan Tunick
William David Brohn (Miss Saigon, Wicked).
Larry Blank
Doug Besterman
Alex Lacamoire