1. Winter 1
Year 11 Composition

2. Learning Objectives
To understand the terms programme music and impressionism
To listen to pieces of music about winter and decide how the composers create an image
To begin planning a composition

3. Programme Music
What features would a piece of music illustrating the following poem have?
To tremble from cold in the icy snow In the harsh breath of a horrid wind To run, stamping our feet every moment Our teeth chattering in the extreme cold.
Programme music is music that tells a story without words

4. Impressionism
Cold
Snow
Ice
Scarf

5. Famous wintry pieces Vivaldi: L’inverno (Winter)
Debussy: Des pas sur la neige (Footprints in the snow)
Whitacre: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening (Sleep)
Schubert: Erstarrung (Frozen) from Winterreise (Winter’s journey)

6. Vivaldi Musical elements Comments Tempo Tonality Instrumentation
Slow
Tonality
Minor
Instrumentation
Effects used?
Strings + solo violin
Basso continuo (harpsichord)
Trills, fast scales, tremolo
Texture
Alternates between homophonic and melody & accompaniment
Structure
Ritornello (Baroque version of Rondo)
Impressionist/Programmatic?
Programmatic – tells the story of the poem we looked at earlier!
Musical elements
Comments
Tempo
Tonality
Instrumentation
Effects used?
Texture
Structure
Impressionist/Programmatic?

7. The Snowman (Howard Blake)
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8. Prep Listen to the Debussy, Whitacre and Schubert
Files on the VLE, or search on YouTube
Fill in the table
Hand in Saturday

9. Plenary
What similarities and differences have you noticed between the Vivaldi and Blake?
2 of each