DOWNLOAD the 2011 Handbook for NCEA Level 3 Music– all the info you need for courses this year.
PERFORMANCE– Visit the Performance page, where you can add your pieces and post YouTube links of your songs
EXTERNALS– now each have their own pages:
3.5 Harmonic & Tonal Procedures (90530)
3.3 Compare & Contrast Music Works (90498)
NZQA past papers– find past *exam papers and answers on the NZQA site (*past exams often have scores missing because of copyright– talk to Mr. B about getting hard copies of exam papers. Answer sheets should be fine online)
Visit your resource page on Moodle
SONATA FORM– Mozart’s Symphony #40 (mvmt 1) explained in terms of Exposition, Development & Recapitulation . . . DOWNLOAD the orchestral score here. and Listen Online here (from Open Source Audio, Columbia University)
BAROQUE DANCE STYLES– the styles popular in Bach’s dance suites and more . . .
Sarabande– slow and stately 3 with strong accent on beat 2
Gavotte– in 4 or 2, phrase starting on the half bar
Minuet– in quick 3, named for shortness of dancer’s steps (French: “menu”)
Gigue (or Jig)– quick, lively 2, usually compound “skipping” feel
Allemande– 4/4 time, begins with an anacrusis of 1 or 3 semiquavers
Courante (or corrente)– quick 3 with a feeling of “6″ cross rhythm at cadences (like a hemiola)
Bourree– similar to gavotte (in 4), but phrase begins on last quarter of bar
Passepied– lively French dance in 3, starting on last beat of bar
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