Year 11 - Music
Performing stylistically
Solo performance
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Unit Summary
Pupils develop solo performance skills, focusing on accuracy, technical control and interpretation. They refine stylistic awareness, practise effectively, and improve fluency and expression to prepare confident solo performances.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to analyse a jazz saxophone performance and can identify strategies to make your performances even more engaging to the listener.
Key Notes
- Creating an engaging performance comes down to a number of considerations.
- Playing stylistically is one of the most important, including using stylistic phrasing, articulation and timbre.
- Playing expressively is an important aspect of communicating music to an audience and engaging them.
- Good communication with other players is also crucial to creating an engaging performance.
- This creates an effective ensemble that play in time and with good balance.
Vocabulary To Learn
- stylistic: using features that are typical of the style, including phrasing, articulation, timbre and others
- phrasing: how a performer gives shape to sections of the melody through subtle use of dynamics, tone and articulation
- balance: the relative volume of different parts or instruments; effective balance is where every part can be heard clearly
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Stylistic features are chosen by the composer, not influenced by the performer.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Creating an engaging performance comes down to a number of considerations. Playing stylistically is one of the most important, including using stylistic phrasing, articulation and timbre.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'stylistic'
using features that are typical of the style, including phrasing, articulation, timbre and others.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Stylistic features are chosen by the composer, not influenced by the performer. Correction: Stylistic features are a mixture of those used by the composer (e.g. melodic features, harmony, rhythms etc.) and the way that the music is played by the performer. This includes how they use phrasing, timbre, articulation and other features.
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