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Vocal Music in the Baroque Era

‘Ev’ry Valley’: Handel’s Messiah

• Handel: Messiah (Spotify)
• Handel: Messiah, 'Ev'ry valley shall be exhalted' (YouTube)
  
• Handel: Messiah score

Activity 1

• Handel: Messiah, 'Rejoice greatly' (Spotify)
• Handel: Messiah,'Rejoice greatly' (YouTube)
  

Activity 2

• Handel: Messiah, 'The trumpet shall sound' (Spotify)
• Handel: Messiah, 'The trumpet shall sound' (YouTube)
  

Tonality

• Minor: Handel: Messiah, 'But who may abide' (Spotify)
• Major: Handel: Messiah, 'He shall feed his flock' (Spotify)
• Minor to relative major: Handel: Chandos Anthems Vol. 4, 'Let God arise' (Spotify)
• Minor to relative major: Handel: Chandos Anthems Vol. 4, 'Let God arise' (YouTube)
  
• Major to tonic minor: Handel: Samson, 'Return, O God of hosts!' (Spotify)

Activity 3

• Handel: Messiah, 'Rejoice greatly' (Spotify)
• Handel: Messiah, 'Rejoice greatly' (YouTube)
  

Activity 4

• Bach: ‘Wedding Cantata’, ‘Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten’ (Spotify)
• Bach: ‘Wedding Cantata’, ‘Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten’ (YouTube)
  

Sonority

• Handel: Ottone, HWV–15, aria for soprano (Spotify)
• Handel: Ottone, HWV–15, aria for soprano (YouTube)
  
• Handel: Messiah, aria for alto (Spotify)
• Handel: Messiah, aria for alto (YouTube)
  
• Handel: Ottone, HWV–15, aria for countertenor (Spotify)
• Handel: Ottone, HWV–15, aria for countertenor (YouTube)
• Handel: Apollo e Dafne, aria for bass (Spotify)
• Handel: Apollo e Dafne, aria for bass (YouTube)
  
• Bach: Cantata 204, ‘Ich bin in mir vergnügt’ (Spotify)
• Bach: ‘Wedding Cantata’, ‘Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten’ (Spotify)
• Handel: Messiah, 'The trumpet shall sound' (Spotify)
• Handel: Messiah, 'The trumpet shall sound' (YouTube)
  

Activity 5

• Question 1 (Spotify)
• Question 1 (YouTube)
  
• Question 2 (Spotify)

Texture

• Bach: ‘Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten’ (Spotify)
• Bach: ‘Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten’ (YouTube)
  
• Bach: Wachet auf, ‘Wenn kömmst du, mein Heil’ (Spotify)
• Bach: Wachet auf, ‘Wenn kömmst du, mein Heil’ (YouTube)
  
• Bach: Wachet auf, ‘Wenn kömmst du, mein Heil’ score

Tempo, metre and rhythm

• Handel: Rinaldo, 'Lascia ch’io pianga' (Spotify)
• Handel: Rinaldo, 'Lascia ch’io pianga' (YouTube)
  
• Bach: ‘Wedding Cantata’, ‘Sehet in Zufriedenheit’ (Spotify)

Activity 6

• Question 1 (Spotify)
• Question 1 (YouTube)
  
• Question 2 (Spotify)
• Question 3 (Spotify)
• Question 3 (YouTube)
  

Vocal Music in the Classical era

• Haydn: The Creation

‘Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar’: Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro

• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar’ (Spotify)
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar’ (YouTube)
  
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar’ translation
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar’ score

Activity 1

• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar’ translation

Tonality and structure

• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Porgi amor’ (Spotify)
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Porgi amor’ (YouTube)
  

Sonority

• Beethoven: Fidelio, ‘Komm Hoffnung’ (Spotify)
• Beethoven: Fidelio, ‘Komm Hoffnung’ (YouTube)
  
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Porgi amor’ (Spotify)
• Mozart: Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni aria (Spotify)
• Mozart: Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni aria (YouTube)
  
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, Cherubino aria (Spotify)
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, Cherubino aria (YouTube)
  
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, harpsichord recitative (Spotify)

Activity 6

• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso’ (Spotify)
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso’ (YouTube)
  
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, ‘Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso’ score

Vocal Music in the Romantic Era

Activity 1

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• (ii)
  
• (iii)
  
• (iv)
  

‘Der Atlas’ by Schubert

• Schubert: ‘Der Atlas’ text and translation
• Schubert: ‘Der Atlas’ (Spotify)
• Schubert: ‘Der Atlas’ (YouTube)
  
• Schubert: ‘Der Atlas’ score

Activity 2

• Schumann: 'Im wunderschönen Monat Mai' (Spotify)
• Schumann: 'Im wunderschönen Monat Mai' (YouTube)
  

Structure

• Schubert: 'Heidenröslein' score
• Schubert: 'Heidenröslein' (Spotify)
• Schubert: 'Erlkönig' score
• Schubert: 'Erlkönig' (Spotify)
• Schubert: 'Erlkönig' (YouTube)
  

Activity 3

• Question 1: Schubert: 'Der Fischer' (Spotify)
• Question 1: Schubert: 'Der Fischer' (YouTube)
  
• Question 2: Schubert: 'Der Musensohn' (Spotify)
• Question 2: Schubert: 'Der Musensohn' (YouTube)
  
• Question 3: Schubert: 'Ständchen' (Spotify)
• Question 3: Schubert: 'Ständchen' (YouTube)
  
• Schubert: 'Ständchen' score

Sonority

• Bizet: Carmen, 'Flower Song' (Spotify)
• Bizet: Carmen, 'Flower Song' (YouTube)
  
• Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, 'O mio babbino caro' (Spotify)
• Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, 'O mio babbino caro' (YouTube)
  
• Mercandante: Emma d’Antiochia, 'Sei tu' (Spotify)
• Wagner: Das Rheingold Sanft schloss Schlaf dein Aug' (Spotify)
• Wagner: Das Rheingold Sanft schloss Schlaf dein Aug' score

Activity 4

• Strauss: ‘Morgen!’ (Spotify)
• Strauss: ‘Morgen!’ (YouTube)
  

Activity 5

• Schubert: ‘Ungeduld’ score
• Schubert: ‘Ungeduld’ (YouTube)
  
• Schubert: ‘Ungeduld’ (Spotify)

Western Art Music in the Twentieth Century

• Vaughan Williams: 'The Sky above the Roof' (Spotify)
• Vaughan Williams: 'The Sky above the Roof' (YouTube)
  

'The Birds'

• Schönberg: ‘Der kranke Mond’ (Spotify)
• Schönberg: ‘Der kranke Mond’ (YouTube)
  

Popular Music

Genres that Originated in African-American Music

• 'Amazing Grace' – Aretha Franklin (Spotify)
• 'St. Louis Blues' – Louis Armstrong (Spotify)
• 'All Blues' – Miles Davis (Spotify)
• 'All Blues' – Miles Davis (YouTube)
  
• 'Airmail Special' – Ella Fitzgerald (Spotify)
• 'Count Every Star' – Al Hibbler (Spotify)
• 'I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry' – Al Green (Spotify)
• 'I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry' – Al Green (YouTube)
  

Rock and Pop Music

• 'Killer Queen' – Queen
  
• 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' – The Beatles (Spotify)
• The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd (YouTube)
• The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd (Spotify)
• ‘Oops!...I Did It Again’ – Britney Spears (YouTube)
  

‘God Only Knows’

• 'God Only Knows' – The Beach Boys (Spotify)
• 'God Only Knows' – The Beach Boys score

Activity 1

• 'Don’t Go Near the Water' – The Beach Boys (Spotify)

Activity 2

• 'Help Me, Rhonda' – The Beach Boys (Spotify)

Activity 3

• 'Let's Go Away for a While' – The Beach Boys (Spotify)

Activity 4

• 'God Only Knows' – The Beach Boys score
• God Only Knows' – The Beach Boys (Spotify)

Activity 5

• God Only Knows' – The Beach Boys (Spotify)
• 'God Only Knows' – The Beach Boys score

‘If I Ain’t Got You’ and ‘Dragon Days’

• 'If I Ain’t Got You' – Alicia Keys (Spotify)
• 'Dragon Days' – Alicia Keys (Spotify)
• The Diary of Alicia Keys Piano Vocal Guitar Songbook
• 'If I Ain’t Got You' – Alicia Keys (YouTube)
  

Activity 1

• Question 3

Activity 3

• Question 2

Wider Listening

• Radio 3

Practice Exam Questions

Section A

• Question 2
  
• Question 2
• Question 3
  
• Question 3
• Question 4
• Question 5

Section B

• Question 1
• Question 1
• Question 2
• Question 2
• Question 2
  
• Question 2
• Question 3
• Question 3
  
• Question 3
• Question 4
• Question 4
• Question 4
  
• Question 5
• Question 5
• Question 5