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Music for special events

AQA Music GCSE resources: 3. Music for special events
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Introduction

Introduction
Students working

Music for special events (Area of study 3, AQA)

 

Composing to a brief

 

Music in context

Articles

Articles

SoundJunction asked three composers to take a rhythm and turn it into a piece of music. Find out what happened…

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Bar 4 on score of Emerging dances

How does composer David Horne go about planning how to get the sounds he wants from an orchestra?

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A lightbulb

Jazz composer Jason Yarde explains how he sets about writing a new piece of music

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Tunde playing the kora

Tunde Jegede describes the initial creative process in composing 'Moving Away'.

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Seeds

Discover the different ways in which SoundJunction's seed rhythm has been used

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test

Find out all about the techniques involved in remixing music

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Listen to music from around the world and discover how music is affected by the context in which it is written

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Discover how different periods in European history have resulted in different musical styles, and listen to centuries of musical development.

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