Music
Click the image on the left to go to the Form. Answer the questions and submit your reflection. Your teacher will award points and guide your curiosity’s next steps.
Show your genuine, significant, and sustained sophistication in lessons and beyond. But first, choose your cultural capital opportunity from the library below…
March 2024
Here’s the list of Influential Musicians of the Term for each year group (bit of a film theme going on): Influential Musicians
- Year 7 – John Williams (studying Film music in music lessons, with assessment piece by Williams)
- Year 8 – Bernard Herrmann (frequent collaborator with Alfred Hitchcock, Year 8 studying Horror Film music in music lessons)
- Year 9 – Freddie Mercury (studying Queen this half term)
- Year 10 – Henry Mancini (known for The Pink Panther Theme, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Peter Gunn…)
- Year 11 – Hans Zimmer (known for The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar, Inception…)
September 2023
To follow the cultural capital tasks click Influential Musicians .
- Year 7 – Ludwig van Beethoven (HT1 assessment pieces for Y7 include ‘Für Elise’ and ‘Ode to Joy’ from Symphony No. 9)
- Year 8 – Ed Sheeran (studying Pop music this term)
- Year 9 – Randy Newman (studying a topic on Disney this term)
- Year 10 – Kurt Cobain (in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ album)
- Year 11 – Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach is one of the set piece composers on the GCSE Music listening exam)
April 2023
Curious about how these musicians have become so influential? Build you cultural capital sophistication. The see if you can show passion and resourcefulness by playing in the musical style of these greats!
Year 7 – Claude Debussy (Romantic Era pianist & composer)
Year 8 – Barnard Herrmann (Horror film composer, notably worked on many Hitchcock films)
Year 9 – Liam & Noel Gallagher (Year 9 are doing a study of “Music from Manchester” this term)
Year 10 – Erik Satie (Romantic Era pianist & composer)
Year 11 – Miles Davis (revolutionary Jazz trumpeter and band leader)
Bonus 1 – Ella Fitzgerald (influential vocalist & “Queen of Jazz”)
Bonus 2 – Hildur Guðnadóttir (first woman & Icelander to win an Oscar for best original score (Joker))
February 2023
Curious about how these musicians have become so influential? Build you cultural capital sophistication. The see if you can show passion and resourcefulness by playing in the musical style of these greats!
- Year 7 – John Williams – Year 7’s will be learning about Film Music this half term
- Year 8 – John Lennon – Year 8’s will be learning about The Beatles this half term
- Year 9 – Paul McCartney – Year 9’s will be learning about The Beatles this half term
- Year 10 – Hans Zimmer – Keeping with the Film theme, Zimmer is amongst the best Film scorers
- Year 11 – Danny Elfman – Another influential Film composer
Email M.Bell@northcestrian.co.uk with your first reflection on the source material. This should be 100 words that summarise the big points and an additional 100 words analysing why this is important to you! What it means for the future? Why it is cultural capital? What has it inspired you to do?
Next, your teacher (subject specialist) will guide your curiosity suggesting more to watch… listen… read… visit… explore.
Show your genuine, significant, and sustained sophistication in lessons and beyond.
13th January 2023
Curious about how these musicians have become so influential? Build you cultural capital sophistication. The see if you can show passion and resourcefulness by playing in the musical style of these greats!
Y7 – Eric Clapton – guitar & ukulele
Y8 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Classical Music
Y9 – Freddie Mercury – Queen
Y10 – Giuseppe Verdi – Italian opera icon
Y11 – Giacomo Puccini – Italian opera icon
