Music

mattfender

Would there be a good chance of the "reland's Contribution to Music in North America" essay coming up this year? dont have the papers...

carpothepunk

Our music teacher told us she thought that essay would come up. Itd be nice alright.

mahamageehad

WTF??!?! Our music teacher told us to just learn the harp, music collectors, irish instrumentation n structure of dance tunes!!!! OMG, i always kinda left out music in my revision like... wots da chances of minor harmony comin up or upbeat in melody coz she skipped them too saying they weren't that important!! :eek::eek::eek:

quoteunquote

that upbeat in the mocks threw me off completely. chord question was a bit iffy too. hope they're not as mean in the real.

I'm gonna learn Sean Nós (we can dream), the harping tradition, Sean O Riada and Micheal O Suilleabhain. Hope it covers me.

chairmanWOW!

i have the exam papers woo! um....the north america one came up in 06 and 04 and 02 so maybe they're doing a "every two years" thing....sean nos hasnt come up in a while so that'll probably be on it....if theres any more you want me to check ill give it a go

mattfender

cool...hopefully it does come up so! Its the only part of music I didnt listen in ha!

Hope the harmony is easy...I havent practiced in ages! And here's me looking for an A:rolleyes: Also...wtf with seachanges its actually hell...I just cant learn it let alone listen to it!! Its painful!!

mahamageehad

mattfender wrote: »

Also...wtf with seachanges its actually hell...I just cant learn it let alone listen to it!! Its painful!!

i quite like seachanges actually!! At least its different! Its grand once you get part that awful squeaky part at da start!! At least when it comes on you'll know for defo which piece it is!! :P cos call me unprepared or whatever but i mix up the mozart and the berlioz!!

chairmanWOW!

yea....im not mr deane's biggest fan but there are some really nice bits in the song...and its easy lol! way easier than berlioz...and that mozart...with all his section 1a part a episode 1....crazy crazy crazy!

mattfender

yeeaaahhhh I need to learn the sections...:o

Rosstafarian

mahamageehad wrote: »

i quite like seachanges actually!! At least its different! Its grand once you get part that awful squeaky part at da start!!

Agreed!! That squeaky bit is off-putting but after that it's pretty enjoyable. Anyone else think the Dies Irae sounds a bit like the Lost theme music??

chairmanWOW!

Rosstafarian wrote: »

Anyone else think the Dies Irae sounds a bit like the Lost theme music??

YEA!!!!!! loads of it does!! it real movie music or somethin. eery and all that jazz!

22diamonds

lol I dunno how ye can even THINK of music atm with all the other exams! I'll wait til tuesday to start studying for that!

MrsSDelonge

ya ya ya! I agree with the whole Lost-esque sound to Deane!:p Our music teacher brought us to see Raymond Deane last month! ahaha fun times...he is the most boooooring guy!! But he went through the whole score and I find Seachanges pretty easy now! It would be SO awesome if that came up as question one!!!:D

mahamageehad

MrsSDelonge wrote: »

ya ya ya! I agree with the whole Lost-esque sound to Deane!:p Our music teacher brought us to see Raymond Deane last month! ahaha fun times...he is the most boooooring guy!! But he went through the whole score and I find Seachanges pretty easy now! It would be SO awesome if that came up as question one!!!:D

yeah i wish!! wot are the chances of that though?? Our teacher tipped the Beatles to come up as question 1 as its an anniversary year or something??!

MrsSDelonge

mahamageehad wrote: »

yeah i wish!! wot are the chances of that though?? Our teacher tipped the Beatles to come up as question 1 as its an anniversary year or something??!

ooo that'd be quite nice too!:D it's so hard to predict music:( but...I've a week between biology and music and my teachers gonna do an extra music class for us a few days before! I'm actually really looking forward to the music exam:p what a dork:p:p:phah

mattfender

I'm gonna spend everday from now on studying...cos aiming for an A or B in this!! Problem is...I havent bloody looked at the subject since the mocks and its my best subject:eek:

So whats the best way to study seachanges? learn off the sections and time/key sigs? Cos I honestly havent looked at that in a year...

*pda

yep I'm just learning key sigs n the changing time sigs n dies irae, etc..Less Stress for music is pretty good as well for the set pieces.

22diamonds

I gotta get an A1 in this so I'm so glad I'm off between now and tuesday, and then off again on wednesday. I've never studied for music before... it's gonna be weird!! :pac:

hippety-pippety

my teacher is pretty sure sean nos is gonna come up

thewildone

I haven't heard anything. But irish music is only 10 marks as far as i know and everything else is basically a definite to come up so really you need to know it all. But listen out on 2fm they shud give you some good pointers!!:)

anie_bawny

Learn the techniques too-they could hardley give a seachanges question with out asking the techniques used!
Id say take a look at 6/8 melodies too maybe!:)

MrsSDelonge

Aw I'd love to do reeeeeally well in music! How did everyones practicals go?:)

starkinter

I think Seachanges would be a lovely question 1. It's just all little compositional gimmicks, which I think are really easy to talk about. Subtraction principle, 3-note cell, and all the strange harmonics and bridge notes etc.

Beatles, of course, would be grand too. Mozart was the last of ours to come up as a long question, so I think we've escaped that one. We got lucky there, I think. He's great, but there are just so many themes and motifs to remember with old Wolfgang.

A-Bit-Dodge

Judging by the pre (Which I know isnt that smartest) and my teacher and actual violin teacher who also teaches, they reckon the gavotte or a minor minuet for melody writing, major chords question, mozart movement 3 for long question, dance macabre for that scourge of noise :rolleyes:....

mattfender

MrsSDelonge wrote: »

Aw I'd love to do reeeeeally well in music! How did everyones practicals go?:)

Mine went pretty well I think. Played my own songs with guitar for voice and she was smiling by the end of them!
Violin pieces went alright besides one or two slips and the clabback I prob got 70% for.

Right time to start learning what seachanges is...

mattfender

starkinter wrote: »

I think Seachanges would be a lovely question 1. It's just all little compositional gimmicks, which I think are really easy to talk about. Subtraction principle, 3-note cell, and all the strange harmonics and bridge notes etc.

Whats that again?

starkinter

That's when they play the "seagull theme" (I think that's what it's called) that goes G-A-C-A-C-G then play it again without the last note, play it again without the last two notes, etc.

mattfender

Oh yeah getcha....brings me back to last year when it was torture ha!

PurpleFistMixer

"Seagull theme"? We just call it the "main melody"... But yeah Deane is great. It's always subtraction. Or addition/augmentation/diminution. That's basically it. And the rhythm for the danse macabre.

I hope a 6/8 melody comes up. Bleedin' love 6/8. Sean nós would be a handy one too.

starkinter

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

"Seagull theme"? We just call it the "main melody"

Yeah, I have no idea why it's called the seagull theme. I suppose it's a bit seagull-like...

mattfender

Danse Macabre rythms horrible....

LilLorna

Music teacher says to concentrate on the Ceili bands, regional styles and sean nos for the essays.

mattfender

Better learn one of those essays so!!

mattfender

Let me just get this straight....danse macabre is just a rhythm..right?

Langerhands

I have an absolute ridiculous teacher! So trying to learn music but don't know what to do. the only god damn essay we did was sean-nos...i think she handed out sheets on the harp, lol.
so was just wondering what other people were studying. like for the set works its obviously tempo, key and time sig, all the important stuff but should you go through each piece in depth? or just the significant moments in the pieces? don't even get me started on melody writing???

mattfender

My teacher was goin over all the parts in the mozart with us yesterday in her revision class and they confuse me! All this first subject theme 2a and all this!! Do they even ask you that in the exam???

thusspakeblixa

Death to all upbeats
. I'm hoping that either Seachanges or the Beatles come up.
And our teacher told us the ''irish contribution to music in north america'' essay was a likely, aswell as the belfast harp festival

mattfender

REALLY hope that essay comes up. How much do ppl write on that anyway? It only gives you 3/4 page to write on!

thusspakeblixa

mattfender wrote: »

REALLY hope that essay comes up. How much do ppl write on that anyway? It only gives you 3/4 page to write on!

I generally try to fill the space given
Minimum bullplop

mattfender

i really need to go over em so.... argh how the hell am I gonna get an A in this?? Do you really have to know the sections of mozart?? And do you have to know the exposition, development yada yada?!

Postman-Layla

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

Death to all upbeats

+1
And minor keys, with their damn raised sevenths & sometimes w*nky sixths.
I've never written a music essay before in my life... Here's to waffle, eh!

thusspakeblixa

mattfender wrote: »

i really need to go over em so.... argh how the hell am I gonna get an A in this?? Do you really have to know the sections of mozart?? And do you have to know the exposition, development yada yada?!

Sure all the set works combined is the same percentage as Irish Music
Ya can get an a1 with leaving out 1 set work afaik!
The essays are grand... I'm just buggered for Mozart and Berlioz! And I haven't a clue for aural skills but don't think that's too bad

giggii

don't be too worried about the works- all in all they're only worth about 15 percent of the overall grade. the questions are usually quite general so, with a very small amount of revision, it's easy enough to get seven to ten percent of that fifteen.

x-katz-x

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

The essays are grand... I'm just buggered for Mozart and Berlioz! And I haven't a clue for aural skills but don't think that's too bad

I agree with ya on that one, im more worried bout mozart than berlioz though, theres just so much ya have to know!:( I'd love if the Beatles or Deane came up as the long question and if something on the belfast harp festival, sean nos or dances came up for the irish music essay!

quoteunquote

Sure even if we mess up royally our practicals might save us!

thusspakeblixa

quoteunquote wrote: »

Sure even if we mess up royally our practicals might save us!

After my ''freeform jazz clarinet'' performance?
Nahh don't think so! :pac:

mattfender

Argh really need to learn off essay again! Totally forget it! Time to look at past papers...yes..at 12:56am:pac:

thusspakeblixa

mattfender wrote: »

Argh really need to learn off essay again! Totally forget it! Time to look at past papers...yes..at 12:56am:pac:

Hit the Nocturnal Forum my friend!
(in my sig)
and all your worries will fly away!

mattfender

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

Hit the Nocturnal Forum my friend!
(in my sig)
and all your worries will fly away!

Cant see your sig! I just realised the essay's only 10 marks...and here's me thinking I only got 7/25 in the mocks! Ha! So I know 7/10 of contribution essay... Better learn some more!

thusspakeblixa

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1090 <----go on go on go on!
Ah but in the essays you get a lot of marks for not so many points

mattfender

So just put down as many points as ya know so?