Leaving Cert Music
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  • Bohemian Rhapsody
    • Form and Audio
    • Instruments
  • Romeo and Juliet
    • Themes
    • Video
    • Structure
    • Glossary of Terms and other features
    • Work sheets
    • Exam questions
  • Bach Cantata
    • 1st Movement - Chorus
    • 2nd Movement - Aria Duet
    • 3rd Movement Tenor Recitative
    • 4th Movement Tenor Aria
    • 5th Movement Bass Recitative
    • 6th Movement Bass Aria
    • 7th Movement - Chorale
    • Tonality and Form
    • Hymn
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    • Test
  • Piano Quartet
    • Section by Section
    • How to remember all the sections
    • Use of Canon
    • Themes
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    • Exam questions
  • Traditional Irish Music
    • Listening to Traditional Irish Music >
      • listening practice
      • Trad past paper listening excerpts
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    • The exam
  • Listening
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    • Tempo, Dynamics, Articulation, Pitch
    • Q.6 Unprepared listening excerpts
    • Un-prepared "Analysis" >
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  • The Beatles
    • Sgt. Pepper album
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    • She's Leaving Home
    • When I'm 64
  • Seachanges
    • Homework
    • Introduction
    • Section 1
    • Section 2
    • Section 3
    • Section 4
    • Section 5
    • Section 6
  • Berlioz
    • Ideé Fixé
    • 2nd movement "A Ball"
    • 4th Movement "March to the scaffold"
  • Mozart
    • Themes
    • 1st Movement - Sonata Form
    • 2nd Movement - Ternary form (ABA)
    • 3rd Movement Sonata Rondo form
    • Score and Tonality
    • The piano
    • Documentary - The genius of Mozart
    • Key Listening practice
  • Course Content
Bohemian Rhapsody without lead vocals
Full song
The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody (Documentary)

Form (structure) and Audio


Introduction - 6 bars (14 + 2).

Keywords
A Capella
Homophonic
Melody and Piano Accompaniment
Block chords
Broken chords
Chromatic
Appogiatura
Panning

Audio of The Introduction
Main song – 2 verses.
Keywords
Broken chords
Appogiatura
Chord progression
Piano accompaniment
Cymbal crash and roll
Chromatic
Backbeat
Drum fill
Flam

Doubling
Panning
Word Painting

Audio of Main Song
Guitar interlude (link or bridge to the next section)
Key words
Guitar Solo
Layering/Multi-tracking
Vibrato
String Bends
Hammer-on
Distorion
Chord Progression
Chromatic
Cymbal crash
Audio of Guitar solo
Operatic section
Key Words

Guitar Tacet
Antiphonal
Dynamics
Chromatic
Panning
Falsetto
Stopped crash cymbal
Panning
Multi-tracking - Overdubbing
Audio of Operatic section
Guitar interlude (link or bridge to the next section) and Rock section or second song
Key Words
Distortion
Doubling
Syncopation
Layering/Overdubbing
Panning
Audio of Rock Section
Coda
Key Words
Broken chords
Chord Progression
Layering

Audio of Coda
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