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

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Tonality

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Sonority

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Texture

Tempo, metre and rhythm

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Vocal Music in the Classical era

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

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Vocal Music in the Romantic Era

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‘Der Atlas’ by Schubert

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Structure

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Sonority

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Western Art Music in the Twentieth Century

'The Birds'

Popular Music

Genres that Originated in African-American Music

Rock and Pop Music

‘God Only Knows’

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

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Wider Listening

Practice Exam Questions

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