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I gather that Jenkins's The Armed Man is on the A-Level Music syllabus, at least in Wales - can anyone confirm whether this is the case in the rest of the country as well?
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« Reply #33 on: 21:55:44, 15-03-2008 » |
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I gather that Jenkins's The Armed Man is on the A-Level Music syllabus, at least in Wales - can anyone confirm whether this is the case in the rest of the country as well?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry! Please tell us you meant 'A' level Media Studies, rather than Music, Ian. |
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« Reply #34 on: 22:11:31, 15-03-2008 » |
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And Monday's Front Row on Radio 4 promises an interview with Mike Oldfield as he releases a "classical" album. Might be wonderful I suppose but I have a few doubts about that !
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« Reply #35 on: 22:17:30, 15-03-2008 » |
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You can hear some bits of it on Oldfield's website, Bobby. It sounds to me like pretty thin material bombastically orchestrated, which isn't entirely unexpected. The best thing about the original Tubular Bells was that it was multitracked in a home studio with odd and often highly original combinations of timbres. Take those away and there really isn't much left.
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« Reply #36 on: 22:24:19, 15-03-2008 » |
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There must be people out there whose first experience of serious music is something edgy and avant-garde, and who get hooked as a result, but I think they are probably in the minority.
Maybe so, but the point here is surely that so-called edgy avant-gardism and Jenkins are hardly the only two available options as ways into music. Some of us have been so taken with our first meaningful musical experiences that we can remember what they were. Anthony Payne says that his was Brahms's First Symphony and Elliott Carter cites Le Sacre du Printemps (of which, in a very recent interview, he said that he believes he attended the US première, though I'm not entirely sure that he's correct in that). My own happened to be Chopin's Ballade in F minor. That's only three examples to be going on with, none of which are exactly edgily avant-garde or blandly Jenkinseque. I hardly think three composers are representative of the music-loving population at large! I wasn't suggesting that they are! What I was seeking to do was point out that everyone has a different way into music and, in some cases (whether composers or not!), it may just happen to be one particular piece that fires off that concern and commitment. |
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« Reply #37 on: 23:11:19, 15-03-2008 » |
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I gather that Jenkins's The Armed Man is on the A-Level Music syllabus, at least in Wales - can anyone confirm whether this is the case in the rest of the country as well?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry! Please tell us you meant 'A' level Media Studies, rather than Music, Ian. Perhaps it's being used as an example of fake music? Unfortunately, probably not. |
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« Reply #38 on: 00:58:20, 16-03-2008 » |
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I do like the comment from Tim of London
I think you may have come across some of his comments before, John, no?  I wonder what the first respondent to that piece thinks 'descry' means. |
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« Reply #39 on: 01:20:01, 16-03-2008 » |
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I think it must mean the kind of "A-Levels" you see advertised in phone-boxes around Kings Cross Station, surely?
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« Reply #40 on: 07:39:13, 16-03-2008 » |
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It's not on the OCR AS level syllabus but could be on the second year of the A level.
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« Reply #41 on: 12:31:46, 18-03-2008 » |
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OK peeps, you had your fun, now Don't Screw With The Armed Man |
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« Reply #42 on: 13:46:00, 18-03-2008 » |
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In this case one of the Knights who say 'Ni' and demand another shrubbery.
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« Reply #43 on: 13:50:37, 18-03-2008 » |
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I think it must mean the kind of "A-Levels" you see advertised in phone-boxes around Kings Cross Station, surely?
You mean the kind of study where analysis is required? |
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« Reply #44 on: 16:27:23, 18-03-2008 » |
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I do like the comment from Tim of London
I think you may have come across some of his comments before, John, no? Maybe, maybe not... |
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