Weblinks and videos for use with 9173 – GCSE Edexcel Wider Listening and Unfamiliar Music: Vocal Music
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
‘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
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’
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Activity 4
Activity 5
‘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
Activity 3
Wider Listening
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