1. Music for Special Occasions GCSE

2. Task 1 -  Brain Storm  What is a Special Occasion?

3. Births, Marriages and Deaths!  Birthdays – every one has sung ‘Happy Birthday’

4. Other popular birthday songs……….  Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen – Neil Sedaka – 1961 –  Popular hit, fast tempos  Strong double bass  Happy Birthday – Stevie Wonder – early 1980’s  Tribute to African American Human rights – Martin Luther King

5. Births……  John Tavener – English Composer  Wrote a short piece to celebrate the birth of a nephew  Words taken from a poem by Blake

6. Royal Births……..  Henry Purcell (1659-1695)  Short poems or Odes set to music  The trumpet shall sound

7. Deaths  Purcell – opera Dido and Aeneas  Lament for Soprano and string group – expressing suffering  Also music for the state funeral of Queen Mary  Diana’s funeral  Candle in the Wind

8. Important Ceremonies  Coronations  Anthems  Marches (Crown Imperial March)  Fanfares  Many different styles  Early to Modern

9. Fanfares - Task  Listen to following extracts of music. Describe what you hear, paying attention to: 1. Instrumentation 2. Tonality – Major or Minor ? 3. Pace – Fast/Slow 4. Rhythm 5. Type of occasion – royal, film etc Answer questions on the listening sheet.

10. Main Features  Usually Brass and Percussion  Used as an Introduction or Prelude  Major (Major Key)  Loud Dynamic – Regal Sound  Repeated rhythmic and melodic patterns

11. Group task  In groups compose a short 8 bar fanfare, to be performed to the rest of the class at the end of the lesson  Remember to use some of the techniques discussed earlier in the lesson.

12. International arenas  Olympic Games – Olympic Fanfare  FIFA World Cup  Rugby – Cwm Rhondda (Wales)  Rugby World cup anthem (World in Union)  Catatonia – International Velvet (nationalist)