Weblinks and videos for use with 5801 - Student Guide to A2 OCR Historical Topic 2: Programme Music
Antonio Vivaldi, Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) (1723)
- Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Sonnets Texts in Italian and English
- Encyclopedia Britannica: The Four Seasons
Related Repertoire: Francois Couperin, Les folies Françaises, ou Les dominos (1722)
Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique (Fantastical Symphony) (1830)
- Symphonie Fantastique: the symphony’s programme
- Keeping Score: different versions of the programme notes for Symphonie Fantastique
- Hector Berlioz: Treatise on Orchestration
- Complete translation of the Grand Traité d’Instrumentation et d’Orchestration Modernes
- The Violin: A User's Manual
Related Repertoire: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (1880)
- Romeo and Juliet Plot Summary
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (page no longer exists)
James MacMillan, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
- James MacMillan
- James MacMillan PhD Thesis: Retrospective Modernist
- James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
- Introduction to the music of James MacMillan by Stephen Johnson
- James Macmillan: The much acclaimed Scottish composer
- Intermusica: Biography of James Macmillan
- Isobel Gowdie’s First Confession
- Talking Music: Composer James MacMillan on 'The Confession of Isobel Gowdie'
Related Repertoire: Toru Takemitsu, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977)
- Interview with Toru Takemitsu
- Photograph of Marcel Duchamp with a five-pointed star shaved into the back of his head (page no longer exists)
- Illustration of Toru Takemitsu's dream (page no longer exists)
- Music of Japan Today: Tradition and Innovation
- The Shô Instrument
- Analysis of Takemitsu's A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden