Music GCSE (9-1) Edexcel: AOS 2 Vocal Music- Purcell : Baroque Melodies

Purcell: ‘Music for a While’ -GCSE (9-1) Edexcel Pearson.- NEW 2018

Purcell’s song ‘Music for a While’ tells part of the Oedipus story, an
ancient Greek legend. The resources below focuses on Baroque Melodic features and setting music to text. Baroque vocal music techniques for composition can be explored here by setting a story that interests students from the world of fantasy and myth to set some of the words from Harry Potter to music.

**Introduction activity: **“Have a listen to Music for a while and in your tables come up with one or two melodic Baroque features you can hear.”

**Main Task: **Following the instructions on the Harry Potter worksheet, create a melody to a chosen two lines of text. ( 20 minutes), using the techniques discussed as a class. Ask the class to keep their melodies for later, to come back to them after examples of word painting are covered as an additional technique (you may return to this in the next lesson).