AREA OF STUDY: SPECIAL EVENTS

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AREA OF STUDYSPECIAL EVENTS

• GCSE MUSIC FOR AQA

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SPECIAL EVENTS MUSIC CAN BE

• From the past
• From the present
• International / National
• Local
• Celebrating something- birth, wedding,
  competition
• Commemorating something- life of someone, memorial

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SPECIAL EVENTS MUSIC IS COMPOSED FOR

• Something in particular
• For an audience to respond to positively
• Events such as
• Coronations / Royal events
• Weddings / Funerals
• Openings of Parliament
• Political , Aristocratic and Celebrity charity
  events
• Sports events Commonwealth games / Olympics /
  Rugby, Football, Cricket events
• Pop gatherings for world fund raising

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BACKGROUND TO SPECIAL EVENT COMPOSERS

• Composers depend on people to pay them to write
  music for specific events
• By the 18th century, composers were commissioned
  by PATRONS - Monarchs, Aristocrats, Church
  leaders Politicians
• Patrons can afford the expense to compose music
  for a specific event

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10 SPECIAL EVENTS FOR GCSE MUSIC ARE

• Idyll
• Masque
• Anthem
• Fanfare
• Ode
• Oratorio
• Overture
• Pop anthem
• Opera
• Funeral music

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Idyll

• Greek Little picture
• Describes a peaceful pastoral scene
• Sung in verses
• Invented by Wagner
• Contains Leitmotiefs a memorable idea
  representing a character

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Masque

• 17th century opera for state occasions
• Lavish vocals, instruments, costumes,dancing,scene
  ry and acting
• Melodic accents correspond with spoken accents in
  English

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Anthem

• Piece of Choral music with a Biblical text
• Sung at every British Coronations of a Monarch
• Composers are Handel and Elgar
• Famous Anthem Pomp and circumstance marches

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Fanfare

• Ceremonial brass music
• Announces monarchs
• Patriotic fanfares are to welcome troops back
  from war have percussion band alongside the
  brass instruments
• 2000 fanfare to open the Millennium bridge
  across the Thames river included a vocal chorus

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Ode

• Piece of poetry
• Praises someone of importance
• Set to ceremonial music
• Simple or emotional odes
• Instruments strings, woodwind,
• harpsichord, harp, recorders

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Overture

• Music written at the beginning of opera, play,
  dance, suite, symphony
• 1st overture was written by Beethoven in 1811

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Oratorio

• Has a sacred subject
• Performed in concert by soloists, ensembles and
  choruses
• Also instrumental ensembles
• 1st oratorio written in 1600

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Pop Anthem

• Raising world awareness of specific issues like
• Famine
• Aids
• Olympics
• World cup Rugby / Football / Cricket ashes
• 1st pop anthem was in 1985 with Sir Bob Geldoff
  and Live Aid
• Used as a means of raising funds for charity
  organisations

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Opera

• Dramatic fusion of words, music, dancing and
  acting
• Birthplace is Italy in the 17th century
• 1st Opera is Euridice
• Written for a royal wedding

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Funeral music

• Music for any persons funeral
• Famous royal funeral music for Princess Dianna of
  Wales
• Elton John- Goodbye Englands rose