Weblinks and videos for use with 9470 - GCSE AQA NEA 2018/2019: Set Brief Composition Prompts
Brief 1
- Music theory online: musical instrument ranges and names
- Philharmonia Orchestra: Instruments
- Yamaha: Musical Instruments
- ‘Eruption’ (Van Halen)
- Ballade No 1 in G minor (Chopin)
- Extract of music by Paganini
Brief 2
- Activity 1. a)
- Activity 1. b)
- Activity 1. c)
- Activity 1. d)
- Activity 1. e)
- Activity 1. f)
- Activity 1. g)
- Activity 1. h)
- Activity 4: Extract 1: ‘Defying Gravity’ (Schwarz, Wicked)
- Activity 4: Extract 2: ‘Last Night of the World’ (Schönberg, Miss Saigon)
- Word Painting Example 1: ‘Do you hear the people sing?’ (Schönberg, Les Misérables)
- Word Painting Example 2: ‘Green Finch and Linnet Bird’ (Sondheim, Sweeney Todd)
- Word Painting Example 3: 'Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat’ (Lloyd-Webber, Cats)
Brief 3
- Activity 1. a)
- Activity 1. b)
- Activity 1. c)
- Activity 2: Extract 1
- Activity 2: Extract 2
- Activity 3: Chopin, Waltz in C sharp minor
- Activity 3: Haydn, Symphony No. 88, Movement 3
- Activity 3: Ellington, 'Take the A train'
- Activity 3: Ariana Grande, ‘One Last Time’
- Activity 3: Samba Rhythms for Samba Percussion
- Activity 3: Academicos do Salguerio, 'Assim Não é Amor'
- Activity 3: Gilberto/Getz, 'The Girl from Ipanema'
- Activity 3: Johnny Pacheco, ‘Quimbara’
- Activity 4: ‘Sacrificial Dance’, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
- Activity 4: ‘Ela é Carioca’, Jobim
- Activity 5: An excerpt from Strictly Come Dancing
- Types of Rhythm: Stravinsky, Petrushka
- Types of Rhythm: Chopin Op. 28, No. 7 (opening)
- Types of Rhythm: Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker, Movement 2 (opening)
- Types of Rhythm: Queen, 'Don’t Stop Me Now'
- Types of Rhythm: Strauss, 'The Blue Danube' Waltz