Harmonisation Of Traditional Folk Songs

Subject: Music
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 16 - 18
Order Number: 11060

This AS resource workbook prepares students for the requirements of the 2551: Composing 1 - Section A: The Language of Western Tonal Harmony paper of the new OCR specification, 20 exercises in the completion of traditional folksongs. This set of photocopiable exercises guides students through the mechanics of the respective compositional techniques needed to create well structured harmonic realisations.

Contents include:

• Skip to my Lou
• The Noble Duke of York
• Jim along Josie
• Spring Song
• The Merry Cobbler
• John Smith, Fellow Fine
• Anna Marie
• Fire Down Below
• Andulko
• The Little Boy and the Sheep
• The Lass of Richmond Hill
• The Lincolnshire Poacher
• Cockles and Mussels
• Barbara Allen
• Cader Idris
• The Ash Grove
• The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies
• The Oak and the Ash
• The Miller of Dee
• Men of Harlech

Candidates are required to submit a set of not less than six exercises showing the addition of bass and harmony to a given melody, of between 8 and 24 bars in length, taken from any suitable established repertoire. The selection of extracts for candidates to work may be taken from different genres, or from a single genre. The set of exercises should contain extracts in major and minor keys. Music technology may be used for the notation of exercises.