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Category: Elements of Music

Lynne Plowman’s Carbon Sky

Post date 31 January 2023
Categories In Elements of Music, Subscribers only, Video library
Tags composition, contrabassoon, instrumentation, orchestration, polyrhythm, register, texture, timbre

Composer Lynne Plowman discusses Carbon Sky, a piece she wrote especially for the Berkeley Ensemble, with Fran

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Designed to assist Key Stage 4 classroom music teachers, Berkeley Ensemble Online combines a searchable video library with optional bespoke and interactive online live events.

Tags composition, contrabassoon, instrumentation, orchestration, polyrhythm, register, texture, timbre

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Mozart vs Coleridge-Taylor

Post date 13 April 2021
Categories In Elements of Music, Subscribers only, Video library
Tags blue note, chromatic passing notes, clarinet, listening, metre, mute, phrases, polyrhythm, tempo, texture, timbre, tonality

Dan’s on hand with two clarinet quintets to help you answer listening paper comparison questions.

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Designed to assist Key Stage 4 classroom music teachers, Berkeley Ensemble Online combines a searchable video library with optional bespoke and interactive online live events.

Tags blue note, chromatic passing notes, clarinet, listening, metre, mute, phrases, polyrhythm, tempo, texture, timbre, tonality

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Louise Farrenc’s Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano

Post date 12 December 2020
Categories In Elements of Music, Subscribers only, Video library
Tags cadential trill, cello, clarinet, German sixth, harmonic rhythm, harmony, parallel minor, pedal notes, perfect cadence, primary triads, secondary dominant, structure, ternary form, tonic chord, transposing instruments

Join Gemma for an in-depth look at the workings of harmony and form in this minuet and trio.

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Designed to assist Key Stage 4 classroom music teachers, Berkeley Ensemble Online combines a searchable video library with optional bespoke and interactive online live events.

Tags cadential trill, cello, clarinet, German sixth, harmonic rhythm, harmony, parallel minor, pedal notes, perfect cadence, primary triads, secondary dominant, structure, ternary form, tonic chord, transposing instruments

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Ernst von Dohnányi’s Serenade

Post date 24 November 2020
Categories In Elements of Music, Video library
Tags arco, cadential trill, canon, cello, chromatic, dotted rhythm, melodic inversion, melodic shape, ostinato, pizzicato, rhythmic augmentation, sequence, ternary form, violin

Explore elements of the first movement from Dohnányi’s Serenade for String Trio.

Tags arco, cadential trill, canon, cello, chromatic, dotted rhythm, melodic inversion, melodic shape, ostinato, pizzicato, rhythmic augmentation, sequence, ternary form, violin