What was the music in the 80's Inter Cert Music?

komputamuso

Howdy!

I've been racking me brains for days over this one, but what was all the music on the Inter Cert music course in the early Eighties. I can remember the following...

Kodaly: Suite from Hary Janos
Debussy: Some (2?) of the Nocturnes
Bach: Fugue in G minor (is this also the 'little' fugue??)

After that I draw a blank, any ideas folks?

Calina

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Bach: Suite in D Major
Schubert - Piano Quintet (in Am I think) "The Trout".

There were two others but I cannot remember what they were.

willows

bramhs academic overture ?

stravinsky fire bird or was the 84 leaving

Cheers
Sean

komputamuso

Nah, too late I'm afraid, I did my Inter Cert in 1980 (argh!)

Anyone any ideas?

Cheers

Karlpopper

I've got four of the pieces:
Bach: Fugue in G Minor,
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture,
Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages and Fetes),
Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite.
There was a fifth but it escapes me. Anyone know the fifth?

dlouth15

I don't know whether it was on the official curriculum but I remember Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and Bizets C major symphony being played. Oh yes, also Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exihibition.

Karlpopper

I think you have it, I'm 90% sure it's Bizet's Symphony in C, and in particular the first movement, the Allegro Vivo.
He wrote the Symphony just after he turned 17 according to the Wilipedia entry for the work, some talent.
Thanks.

picturehangup

Hi,

Yes, I remember the final piece in the Jigsaw, Karlpopper. I heard it on Lyric FM the other day! And recognised it instantly!
It was George Bizet: Symphony in C major, first movement.
We had a most wonderful music teacher. I particularly loved the Bach Little Fugue. That was my personal favorite.

picturehangup

Karlpopper

picturehangup wrote: »

Hi,

Yes, I remember the final piece in the Jigsaw, Karlpopper. I heard it on Lyric FM the other day! And recognised it instantly!
It was George Bizet: Symphony in C major, first movement.
We had a most wonderful music teacher. I particularly loved the Bach Little Fugue. That was my personal favorite.

picturehangup

Thanks, picturehangup. I guess that wraps it up now.

hydr

I can remember the Trout quintet and i think bach's suite no 3 in D major. There was mendelsson - was it hebrids?

sadie06

I did the inter in 1989 and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture was definitely on it!

patjackman

Ha! I posted the original post! Different username, different decade! Eight years to find the answer! Cheers, Karlpopper!

endacl

Gas. The 80's inter cert in more interesting, more challenging, more difficult, and more rewarding than the current leaving cert. you actually had to know the subject...

Same for all subjects, I wonder?

maireadcurtin

Heard the Hary Janos Suite this morning - I think for the first time since Inter Cert music in 1979. I knew every twist and turn but had no idea of the composer or the name of the piece. Debussy, Bach, in the hall of the mountain king, carnival of the animals all transport me back to a basement classroom in Loreto Wexford with the Reverend Mother and a tiny tape machine...