Term 3 - Lessons 8 and 9 - Friday 19th and Monday 22nd May

NB: no lesson on Friday (or Monday which is the bank holiday!) Thereafter, lessons will continue as normal.


Ornaments

Here are all the ornaments you need to know for Grade 5 theory.
(ignore all the stuff about Italian/French words - we're dealing with that separately - see below)

This illustration of a trill is more accurate than the one on the link above. It also demonstrates different ways in which the trill could be interpreted. (Please bear in mind, the trill can start on either upper note or the note itself - i.e. the example above could start on an E).




In the exam, you will be expected to bits of a written out melody with the ornaments sign (which, if you think about it, should be much easier than doing the opposite - that comes up in Grade 6...)




Grade 3 Words

Here are the Grade 3 words. Learn them for Friday 2nd June when you will be tested!

ad libitum, ad lib	at choice, ie a passage may be played freely
adagietto	rather slow, but faster than Adagio
agitato	agitated
alla breve	with a minim beat
amore	love
amoroso	loving
anima	soul, spirit (eg. con anima - can mean with feeling or spirited)
animando	becoming more lively
animato	animated, lively
ben	well
brio	vigour (eg. con brio - with vigour, lively)
comodo	comfortable/convenient (tempo comodo - at a comfortable speed)
deciso	with determiniation
delicato	delicate
energico	energetic
forza	force
largamente	broadly
leggiero	light, nimble
marcato, marc.	emphatic, accented
marziale	in a military style
mesto	sad
pesante	heavy
prima, primo	first
risoluto	bold, strong
ritmico	rhythmically
rubato, tempo rubato	with some freedom of time
scherzando, scherzoso	playful, joking
seconda, secondo	second
semplice	simple, plain
sempre	always/throughout
stringendo	gradually getting faster
subito (sub.)	suddenly
tanto	so much
tranquillo	calm
triste, tristamente	sad, sorrowful
volta	time/instance (eg. prima volta - first time; seconda volta - second time)

Term 3 - Lesson 7 - Monday 15th May

Good Morning.

Please continue with the transposition worksheet we started on Friday and submit it at the end of the lesson (either by handing it to Farz or leaving it in a pile at the front of the classroom).

Also, Group B (and Group C if I'm not back by then) should be submitting their "General Exercises" worksheet. (Group A: you have until Friday).


On the transposition worksheet:

For the exercises where you are transposing by an octave, make sure you think about where Middle C is. If you do that, it should be very straightforward.

For the exercises where you have to transpose by a Major 2nd or a Minor 3rd, look at my list of instructions on how to transpose.

Please note: where you are given the Clarinet (or trumpet) in B flat part, you need to transpose down a major 2nd. Where they want you to write the Clarinet in B flat part, you need to transpose up a major 2nd. Similarly, go down a Minor 3rd to transpose from the Clarinet in A part and up a Minor 3rd to transpose to a Clarinet in A part.(You won't have to work this out in the exam - they tell you the transposition you have to do).

Term 3 - Lesson 6 - Friday 12th May

What happens if you don't want to start this on C?

Transposition

By now, you should be able to figure out key signatures. Here is the circle of fifths for you to use to check.

Here is my list of instructions on how to transpose.

You may find this useful: Here is a page which explains it in a different way and also gives some information about some of the contexts in which you would transpose.

You need to be clear on intervals. Revise this if necessary.

Transposing Instruments:

Basically, some instruments are not written at the pitch they actually sound!

For example, the Clarinet in B flat (which is the most common type of clarinet). If you play a C on a Clarinet in B flat, you will hear a B flat. In other words, it will sound a tone lower than it is written at.



Here are some of the common transposing instruments.

Here's an excellent wikipedia entry on transposing instruments.



This "Music Teacher" with, like, "Three Degrees" doesn't understand why we have transposing instruments:



Fortunately, "Mr Audio" does.

Term 3 - Lesson 5 - Monday 8th May

Here's a copy of the crossword we did.

And here are the solutions in case you are stuck.




Here are some questions to test your knowledge of instruments.



Here is a page which gives you the spellings and families of instruments and some sound clips.
(note: it says "English Horn" which is the same as Cor Anglais"

Here are the ranges of the instruments and voices you will need for Grade 5 theory

And here is information about the clefs they use.



BY FRIDAY

Make sure you have learnt the technical names for the degrees of scale:


1  Tonic
2  Super-Tonic
3  Mediant
4  Sub-Dominant
5  Dominant
6  Sub-Mediant
7  Leading Note