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xoxogossipgirl:
yes i've done that vocal one - so trippy. then read the examiners reports for high level responses and was like wtfff how do people hear that.. i missed heaps.

i struggled with that mongolian one! so different to anything i'd ever heard before

i emailed my teacher 3 hours ago with unheard practices and no reply so will probably have to hassle him tomorrow. god i hope i do okay..regroup here after the exam tomorrow to discuss it, after i go out celebrating the fact that i'll finally be finished woooo :D

Killerkob:
The mongolian one was so silly.. they just re-wrote the given information of instruments but said how they were used to score like 85% of the marks. Definitely reconvene here after the exam. How do you guys tackle Section C? I don't even fully understand what 'creative processes' means. Care to enlighten me? ::)

xoxogossipgirl:

--- Quote from: Killerkob on November 16, 2010, 07:15:48 pm ---Hahaha. The day before the exam. You left it a little late ;)
In Chronological Order:
The Four Seasons - Antonio Vivaldi
Earth Cry - Peter Sculthorpe
So What - Miles Davis
In C - Terry Riley

Do I know anything about them? Not really.
Do I have heaps of information to regurgitate in the exam? You bet I do.

EDIT:

--- Quote from: xoxogossipgirl on November 16, 2010, 07:12:58 pm ---i'm doing mozart symphony no 40, earth cry - sculthorpe, erotomania - dream theatre & enta omri - oum kalthoum (a weird egyptian piece)

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Woah, Woah, WOAH! You're doing Earth Cry too?
This is where we exchange notes. I'll start with contextual issues, you add anything that I don't  have, and hopefully I'm adding to yours. :D

1.Sculthorpe was commissioned by the ABC in 1985 to compose an Australian piece, yet the deadline was too soon for him to be able to compose a piece. This is shown by him reworking a previously unfinished piece named "Song of Talitnama", which was based off an aboriginal melody from an aboriginal poem.

2. He was fascinated by the Australian landscape, this is reflected by the doubling of instruments playing the melody to present broadness and structured the piece in ternary form to give the feeling of going in a circle. He believes that when you travel in Australia, where you end up looks similar to where you started and as such feels as though travelling in a circle. The tonal nature of the song is also due to his love of the Australian land. In an interview Sculthorpe stated "we need to listen to the cry of the earth, because if we don't, then death." His music mirrors this as it is based around the notes D, Db and A. Where D is "death", Db is the "Earth" and A is "Australia".

3. Due to interests in non-western music, Sculthorpe was heavily influenced by Balinese Gamelan and Japanese Koto music. The Balinese Gamelan is prevalent in his horn figurations, while the Japanese Koto music through the cellos imitating the horns.

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Section A uses a Japanese Hirajoshi scale (apparently)
And the Balinese Gamelan influence is also seen in his use of polyrhythms in the winds at figure 4
A lot of this is due to his belief in the importance of a connection between Australia and the rest of the Pacific

The Aboriginal influence of the chants of the Arrernte people can be heard through the repetitive rhythms, extending phrases etc etc of section B

Your point 2 is really awesome, never heard most of that before! Wow :D

Ummm.... Sculthorpe believed in the importance of the "true breath of our culture" and believed we are lacking a "true national identity." Blah blah blah he was trying to counteract the stereotyped view of Australia such as that promoted by figures such as Paul Hogan (there's just a bit of a weird context one)


For creative processes, say (I think!) how it affected how you composed. Say if it was "how did the restrictions placed by your teacher affect your creative processes in terms of structure/melody" you could say something like "our teacher instructed us to write in a Classical style, so I decided to use Sonata form" etc etc

galeface:
I know, it's freakin weird. If we get one tomorrow I will honestly stab myself with a pen.
I quite liked the piece itself, just so hard to analyseeee.
My teacher does that :P I did like 3 exams worth of excerpt yesterday, saw him this morning and he didn't mark them, so I don't think I'll get them in time for the exam...
Sounds like a plan! Chilling with class, then going for icecream, come back and chill before hitting the club to analyse some club music (of course lol)


--- Quote from: Killerkob on November 16, 2010, 09:40:12 pm ---How do you guys tackle Section C? I don't even fully understand what 'creative processes' means. Care to enlighten me? ::)

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I just talk about how I use Sibelius... my teacher gave us the task of creating a 3 - 5 minute film score, so I usually refer to how I had the storyline of the movie and then trying to express that through the style and melody of music.
I think it's just your thought processes while creating the composition, well that's what I've been interpreting it as anyway...  :-\

xoxogossipgirl:
Yeah that's what I do for any questions related to 'preservation of the work' and such
which sometimes they ask the creative processes in terms of that, sometimes other things
stuff about how sibelius you can use 'trial and error' and playback what you've composed to hear if it works
but how no live recording means some expressive elements cannot be notated accurately
utter bullcrap really hahaha

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