music in motion resource pack

MUSIC IN MOTION
RESOURCE PACK
SCHOOLS CONCERT
WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016
ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE
WELCOME
Welcome to the London Sinfonietta’s Resource Pack for Music in Motion, our 2016 Schools Concert. It
will tell you what to expect and provide some materials to help prepare you for the day.
Contents:
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 & 4
Page 5, 6, 7 & 8
Page 9
Page 10
Page 11
Page 12
Welcome and introduction to the London Sinfonietta
Concert repertoire and performer list
The composers and the music
Freedom Train score and song sheet
Body percussion
Musical movements – serialism and minimalism
Travelling timeline
Discover more – further listening and reading
To get the most from your experience at our Music in Motion concert, it would be beneficial to
learn both the song Freedom Train (page 5) and the body percussion piece (page 9) in advance.
LONDON SINFONIETTA
The London Sinfonietta’s mission is to place the best
contemporary classical music at the heart of today’s
culture; engaging and challenging the public through
inspiring performances of the highest standard, and
taking risks to develop new work and talent. Founded
in 1968, the ensemble’s commitment to making new
music has seen it commission over 350 works, and
premiere many hundreds more.
Resident at Southbank Centre and Artistic Associates
at Kings Place, with a busy touring schedule across
the UK and abroad, its core is 18 Principal Players,
representing some of the best solo and ensemble musicians in the world. The group also works with
talented Emerging Artists, to ensure the unique expertise of its Principals is passed on to the next
generation.
Holding a world-leading position in education and participation work, the London Sinfonietta believes
that arts participation is transformational to individuals and communities, and new music is relevant
to people’s lives. This belief is enacted through primary and secondary school concerts across the
UK, teacher training and interactive family events, as well as the annual London Sinfonietta Academy,
an unparalleled opportunity for young performers and conductors to train with the world’s leading
contemporary music ensemble. The London Sinfonietta has also broken new ground recently by
creating Steve Reich’s Clapping Music app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, a participatory rhythm
game that has been downloaded over 104,000 times worldwide.
MUSIC IN MOTION
Wednesday 11 May 2016
St John’s Smith Square
Michael Nyman MGV 1st Region
Anton Webern Three Little Pieces 1st movement
Colin Matthews Quartet No. 2 6th movement
John Adams Road Movies 1st movement: Relaxed Groove
Philip Glass String Quartet No. 3 6th movement: Mishima/Closing
Anna Meredith Songs for the M8 1st movement
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet Scherzo
James Redwood presenter
Jonathan Morton violin
Joan Atherton violin
Zoe Matthews viola
Tim Gill cello
Antoine Francoise piano
The theme Music in Motion has been chosen to reflect the London Sinfonietta’s current project with
Art on the Underground, and our support of the London Curriculum.
Supported by The Nugee Foundation
THE COMPOSERS &
THE MUSIC
Here’s some more information about the repertoire featuring in our Music in Motion concert:
Michael Nyman MGV 1st region
Michael Nyman is a British composer, pianist, writer, film-maker and
Queen’s Park Rangers supporter who has written operas, concert music
and even Oscar-winning film soundtracks. He has worked with a range of
different artists including Damon Albarn.
MGV stands for “Musique à Grand Vitesse” which is “High-Speed Music”
in English. Michael Nyman was asked to write this piece to celebrate the
opening of a new high-speed train line in France, the Train à Grande Vitesse
(TGV). MGV has five movements, which Michael calls “Regions”, and each region represents a different
train journey. Each movement has the same theme, but it changes its melody, harmony and rhythm in
each region to represent the different environments a train might go through.
Anton Webern Three Little Pieces 1st movement
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. His mentor was
the composer Arnold Schoenberg who invented a new compositional
method using all twelve notes of a scale – this later became known as
serialism. Webern used this technique in most of his work which is why it
sounds quite jumbled up and detached.
Three Little Pieces is exactly that. Each piece is only about one minute
long, with the second movement being only 45 seconds long. But just
because it’s short does not mean it isn’t challenging!
Colin Matthews String Quartet No. 2 6th movement
Colin Matthews is a composer who was born in London in 1946. He has
worked with orchestras all over the world and helps young composers and
musicians in developing their skills.
String Quartet No. 2 was originally written in 1985, but he wasn’t happy
with it, so re-wrote the whole thing again in 1989.
Colin uses techniques called atonality and discord in his music. This is
where music doesn’t have a central key (like A major or C minor for example) allowing the music
to move around freely. Discord is where certain notes and sounds seem to clash more than others,
sounding harsher in comparison.
John Adams Road Movies I: Relaxed Groove
John Adams was born in America in 1947 and is one of the most popular
living composers today. He has written both opera and orchestral works.
Adams’ music often has a storyline, and his A Short Ride in a Fast Machine
is another example of a piece with travelling as it’s theme.
Road Movies was written in 1995, and the composer describes the
movement you will hear in the concert as “a relaxed drive down a familiar
road”. If you listen carefully you can hear the ‘musical scenery’ slowly
approaching and then flying past you, as would happen in a car journey.
Philip Glass String Quartet No. 3 – 6th movement: Mishima/Closing
Philip Glass is an American composer who has written music for opera,
dance, theatre, orchestra, and even films. He was also one of the first
composers to start writing his music in the style that we know as
minimalism. With an interest in different cultures, Glass often uses
the influence of Eastern traditions in his work. His music has directly
influenced many artists including David Bowie and Brian Eno, and he has
worked with Paul Simon, Mick Jagger and Aphex Twin, to name a few.
String Quartet No. 3 is also sometimes called the Mishima String Quartet as it was initially used in the
film Mishima. The film tells the life story of a Japanese man – his childhood, his mature years and the
last day of his life. The last movement of this piece illustrates a man coming to the end of his journey.
Anna Meredith Songs for the M8 – 1st movement
Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer. Her music covers
many genres and is performed everywhere from classical concert halls to
festivals, and even a flash mob on the M6 services. She recently wrote a
body percussion piece called Connect It for BBC Ten Pieces and the first
ever concerto for beatboxer and orchestra.
Songs for the M8 was commissioned by a festival in France, but refers to
the M8 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, which Anna knew well
growing up in Edinburgh. The music travels much like a motorway would, in a repetitive manner, with
occasional dips and turns.
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet – Scherzo
Dimitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist born in St.
Petersburg, Russia. His music was heavily influenced by the politics of the
Second World War and was restricted a lot of the time by what he was
allowed to write. In 1953, however when the Stalin regime had ended, he
wrote arguably his best work. This included the famous Tenth Symphony,
which gave him the opportunity to speak freely through his music.
Piano Quintet was written in 1940, just before Russia went to war with
Germany. The piece was not originally written for piano, but after impressing a string quartet in
Moscow, Shostakovich was asked to alter it so he could play alongside them.
FREEDOM TRAIN
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You may
find it useful to learn Freedom Train
accompanied
with the audio track we have also provided.
Leadsheet
arr. James Redwood
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BODY PERCUSSION
We’ve put together three short videos which introduce body percussion and make learning these
actions as simple as possible. You can find them by clicking on the video icons below:
MUSIC IN MOTION INTRODUCTION
Presenter James Redwood explains what to expect
from our upcoming concert, including the run down
on a couple of things to learn before you arrive.
BODY PERCUSSION INTRODUCTION
James describes the inspiration for his new body
percussion piece, influenced by composer Matt
Rogers and sounds from the Underground.
BODY PERCUSSION DEMONSTRATION
Learn the body percussion that will be part of the
Music in Motion concert. Check the description of the
YouTube video to see handy time markers to aid you in
the learning process.
MUSICAL
MOVEMENTS
what is serialism?
Serialism is a style of composition from the 20th century that uses the twelve-tone scale. This scale is
made up of the twelve semitones found in an octave. These semitones can be placed in any order that the
composer chooses, such as:
Retrograde – The scale is played backwards.
Inversion – The scale is flipped, like a mirror image of the original scale. For example, when the notes in the original scale go up, the notes in the inversion go down.
Retrograde Inversion – The scale is played backwards and then flipped to create an inversion.
Transposition – This follows the same pattern as the original scale but starts on a different note.
The twelve-tone system was designed by Arnold Schoenberg, who was Anton Webern’s teacher. Although
it is often hard to hear the scale in its different forms when listening, the differences are clear to see when
the music is written down.
This method of composition was intended to bring a balanced and calculated approach to music. Whilst a
lot of people criticised it at the time, it influenced a lot of composers later on.
Notable composers of serialism are Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Pierre Boulez.
what is MINIMALISM?
Minimalism is a style of music that came from America in the early 1960s. A key feature of minimalism is
its ostinatos, which are short repeated melodies (often made up of broken chords) which are played over
and over again. Ostinatos are layered (played on top of each other) and changed in different ways such as
adding notes to a melody or tune, changing the melody over time or changing the rhythm.
These slight changes to the ostinatos create an effect called phase shifting, which is where all of the
ostinatos are played at slightly different times to each other having all started at the same time.
Steve Reich is probably the most famous composer of minimalism; some of his most notable works are
Music for 18 Musicians, Electric Counterpoint and Clapping Music. Other composers of minimalism include
Philip Glass, Terry Riley, John Adams, Arvo Pärt and Michael Nyman.
You can practice Clapping Music through the London Sinfonietta’s Clapping Music App for iPhone, iPad and
iTouch. Download now for free.
TRAVELLING
TIMELINE
We’ve been exploring some Music in Motion themed events in history:
TRAVEL MILESTONES
1863 London Underground opened
1903 The first aeroplane flight
1912 RMS Titanic sinks
1968 Victoria Line opened
1969 First concorde flight
1979 Jubilee Line opened
1994 Channel Tunnel opened
2002 Segway invented
2003 Last concorde flight
2003 Oyster card introduced
2003 Congestion charge introduced
2007 London Overground opened
2010 Boris Bikes introduced
2012 Emirates Air Link cable cars opened
2018 Elizabeth Line due to open
COMPOSER MILESTONES
1883 Anton Webern born
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich born
1914 Three Little Pieces written
1937 Philip Glass born
1940 Piano Quintet written
1944 Michael Nyman born
1945 Anton Webern died
1946 Colin Matthews born
1947 John Adams born
1975 Dimitri Shostakovich died
1978 Anna Meredith born
1985 String Quartet No.2 written
1985 String quartet no.3 written
1993 MGV written
1995 Road Movies written
2005 Songs for the M8 written
DISCOVER MORE
FURTHER LISTENING
Anna Meredith Connect It, BBC Ten Pieces
http://www.annameredith.com/projects/#connectit
Anna Meredith Hands Free, National Youth Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo97ztKppIw
John Adams A Short Ride in a Fast Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LoUm_r7It8
FURTHER READING
Matt Rogers Sample Set and Underline Learning Guide
http://art.tfl.gov.uk/learning/underline-learning-guide/
London Curriculum Music
https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/education-and-youth/london-curriculum/london-curriculummusic
Classic FM Guide to Minimalist Music
http://www.classicfm.com/discover/periods/modern/minimalism-guide/#XsTmS35B2hiOukUj.97
BBC Bitesize 20th Century Music
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music/music_20th_century/reich3.shtml
BBC Ten Pieces Primary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/16ndky0F6hMWvJ3Xcbc44Dq/ten-pieces-primary
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