These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Cantata ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott’ BWV 80, 1st, 2nd and 8th movements (Bach) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

Model essay based on the Edexcel A Level Music set works. This is a top band response to the following question: Evaluate Saariaho’s use of sonority, dynamics and tempi as a means of exploiting the expressive and technical potential of the cello. Relate your discussion to other relevant works. These may include set works, wider listening or other.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: On Wenlock Edge, No.1 ‘On Wenlock Edge’, No.3 ‘Is My Team Ploughing?’ and No.5 ‘Bredon Hill’ (Vaughan Williams) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Prelude’, ‘The City’, ‘Marion’, ‘The Muder’ (shower scene), ‘The Toys’, ‘The Cellar’, ‘Discovery’, ‘Finale’ from Psycho (Bernard Herrman) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Breathing Under Water: ‘Burn’, ‘Breathing Under Water’ and ‘Easy’ (Anoushka Shankar) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Birth of a Penguin’ Parts 1 & 2, ‘Rise and Fall from Grace’ and ‘Batman vs the Circus’, from Batman Returns(1992) (Danny Elfman) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Symphonie fantastique: Movement 1 (Berlioz) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

Checklist and advice for the Edexcel A Level Music Component 2 Arrangement Task. They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Here, There and Everywhere’, ‘I Want to Tell You’ and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ from Revolver (The Beatles) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), No.4 (recit and aria: ‘O zittre nicht’) and No. 5 (quintet: ‘Hm!’) from Act 1 (Mozart) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Lady Day and John Coltrane’, ‘Inner State of Mind’ and ‘Love and Affection’ from Back in the Day (2000) (Courtney Pine) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17: Movement 1 (Clara Schumann) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

Essay plan based on the Edexcel A Level Music set works. This is a top band response to the following question: Evaluate Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring movements 1 – 3 with reference to the different moods, atmospheres and dances. Relate your discussion to other relevant works. These may include set works, wider listening or other.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: The Rite of Spring: Introduction, ‘The Augurs of Spring’ and ‘Ritual of Abduction’ (Stravinsky) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Estampes: No.1 ‘Pagodes’ and No.2 ‘La Soirée dans Grenade’ (Debussy) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

These notes will help you learn and revise Component 3 (Appraising) content for the A Level Music exam, specifically concerning the following work: Alla va candela’ from ‘Se Quema la chumbamba’ from Cana Quema (La Familia Valera Miranda) This resource includes: Historical and stylistic context of the set work and key vocabulary. Detailed key information regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. A* examples to give you an in-depth knowledge ready for essay and listening questions in the exam. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. Possible ways of revising this material include: Highlighting key words in the notes Write an essay question and see if you have remembered all the points and examples listed Listening to the wider listening suggestions and seeing if you can recognise the key features listed and compare them to the piece These notes are also really good for making revision cards from They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.

Model essay based on the Edexcel A Level Music set works. This is a top band response to the following question: Evaluate Portman’s use of melody, rhythm and harmony in ‘Six Years Later’ and ‘Never See Your Children Again’ with particular reference to the changing circumstances of the heroin. Relate your discussion to other relevant works. These may include set works, wider listening or other.

Handwritten mind maps comparing Edexcel A level set works to each other and making wider listening links. They contain: Key notes facts and examples regarding all musical elements relevant to the set work: sonority, instrumentation, texture, structure, melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo and dynamics. Relevant wider listening comparisons (both similarities and differences) which will be essential for higher level responses to an exam question. They have served me well in my A Level music course and I hope they can be of benefit to you too! There’s also plenty more where this came from, so please check out my other resources.