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AQA Music A2 Unit 4 Music in Context, 10th June 2015
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How is everyone's revision going for this? I feel in the minority doing AQA!! I'm doing jazz and Shostakovich.
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I am also doing Shostakovitch and Jazz and I am SO worried! I am so confused about the themes in the first movement of Shostakovitch! I missed the lessons on it and it is really holding me back!
can anyone explain them?
Thanks
I am also doing Shostakovitch and Jazz and I am SO worried! I am so confused about the themes in the first movement of Shostakovitch! I missed the lessons on it and it is really holding me back!
can anyone explain them?
Thanks
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(Original post by Littlebean)
Hi
I am also doing Shostakovitch and Jazz and I am SO worried! I am so confused about the themes in the first movement of Shostakovitch! I missed the lessons on it and it is really holding me back!
can anyone explain them?
Thanks
Hi
I am also doing Shostakovitch and Jazz and I am SO worried! I am so confused about the themes in the first movement of Shostakovitch! I missed the lessons on it and it is really holding me back!
can anyone explain them?
Thanks
In the first movement there are three motifs, and three themes, and they're all interconnected.
The three motifs you hear at the very beginning. We call them:
Motif A (which is the dotted rhythm that you hear in canon in the strings at the very start). This has an erratic sense of key, is disjunct, characterised by double dots and accents. (bar 1 and 2)
Motif B - is the falling dotted stepwise motif straight after that (bar 3)
Motif C - the three repeated notes (bar 4)
At figure 1 there is what we call the 'figure 1 violin melody' - falling, in Dm with a dissonant Eb
At figure 5 - the 'figure 5 oboe theme'
At figure 9 - the 'second subject theme' (which is actually an augmented version of motif A)
If you look at the development section, all the motifs and themes are used, eg. Look at figure 19 in the woodwind - the figure 1 violin melody and the figure 5 oboe theme are put together.
And at figure 22 - the melodic shape in the lower strings comes from the 2nd subject
Hope that helps
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(Original post by indigorain)
How is everyone's revision going for this? I feel in the minority doing AQA!! I'm doing jazz and Shostakovich.
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How is everyone's revision going for this? I feel in the minority doing AQA!! I'm doing jazz and Shostakovich.
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I feel so unprepared for this exam, its the one ive least revised for and Im only properly starting revision the day before because I had other exams
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I'm doing shostakovich and jazz too!!! I have to say I'm more prepared than I was last year. Ive literally not even finished my exam notes yet 
Im just going to think about the kind of jazz questions there will be for example, two pieces from the same era, one from jazz blues and one from swing etc. don't really know how else to prepare myself haha...
Im just going to think about the kind of jazz questions there will be for example, two pieces from the same era, one from jazz blues and one from swing etc. don't really know how else to prepare myself haha...
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I am literally panicking so much! I don't know anything on Jazz.. Im so stressed... any tips :P
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All I can say is remember that main features like blues notes, instruments used and the structures. Also syncopation, very important
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I think first or third movement for Shosty, and one of them will possibly be a bit more philosophical, like about context. And I'm hoping for bebop comparison for the jazz
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(Original post by paddyddap)
I think first or third movement, and one of them will possibly be a bit more philosophical
I think first or third movement, and one of them will possibly be a bit more philosophical
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(Original post by amygreenn)
Hoping and praying for 1st!!
Hoping and praying for 1st!!
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I'm really hoping the last listening question isn't awful, did anyone do last year's elgar one as a practise? because that was too hard
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(Original post by paddyddap)
I sort of am, but I'd also like an open one where you can pick the passages yourself, then you can refine it to the better bits of the first (i.e. exposition, later development)
I sort of am, but I'd also like an open one where you can pick the passages yourself, then you can refine it to the better bits of the first (i.e. exposition, later development)
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(Original post by paddyddap)
I'm really hoping the last listening question isn't awful, did anyone do last year's elgar one as a practise? because that was too hard
I'm really hoping the last listening question isn't awful, did anyone do last year's elgar one as a practise? because that was too hard
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(Original post by amygreenn)
yeah thats true! I'm hoping that the 4th movement won't come up, just because theres not as much to say! But I guess there is two questions so
yeah thats true! I'm hoping that the 4th movement won't come up, just because theres not as much to say! But I guess there is two questions so
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(Original post by amygreenn)
Was that enigma variations?
Was that enigma variations?
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(Original post by paddyddap)
yeah, the one where they gave you the motifs? but then you had to identify how they'd been changed?
yeah, the one where they gave you the motifs? but then you had to identify how they'd been changed?
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(Original post by amygreenn)
oh yeah! Hate questions like that, you just don't know what they're looking for!
oh yeah! Hate questions like that, you just don't know what they're looking for!
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