BTEC Level 3 in Music Taster day and task.

BTEC NATIONAL EXTENDED CERTIFICATE IN MUSIC

Welcome to the brand new performance course at TCS! New for 2017!This course aims to build upon your performance skills, broaden your knowledge of the Music industry and prepare you for a career in Music.

You will need:

Note pad

Headphones

Memory stick (will prove very useful)

Ring binder folder

Set of dividers (we will be studying a lot of units...)

Course Structure:

There are 4 units over the 2 years structured in this way:

The optional unit will be chosen to suit the class’ strength’s and can be one of the following:

  • Arranging Music
  • Composing Music
  • Music Promotion
  • Solo Performance
  • Music Ensembles
  • Music Software Skills

Each unit has a reading list that will hopefully be made available in the school library. Below is the reading list for the core unit - The sound and music industry.

Recommended reading:

Barrow C and Barrow P – The Business Plan Workbook (Kogan Page, 2005) ISBN 978-0749443467

Hutchison T, Macy A and Allen P – Record Label Marketing (Focal Press 2006) ISBN 978-0240807874

Levine M – How to Be a Working Musician: A Practical Guide to Earning Money in the Music Business (Billboard

Books, 1997) ISBN 978-0823083299

Music Managers Forum – The Music Management Bible (Sanctuary, 2003) ISBN 978-1844920259

Newby J and Barrow T – Inside the Music Business (Routledge, 1994) ISBN 978-0415136600

Pattenden S – How to Make It in the Music Business (Virgin Books, 2007) ISBN 978-0753512432

Schulenberg R – Legal Aspects of the Music Industry (Billboard Books, 2005) ISBN 978-0823083640

Winterson J, Nickol P and Bricheno T – Pop Music: The Text Book (Peters Edition, 2003)

ISBN 978-1843670070

Journals

Musicweek

Sound on Sound

Websites

rights collection agency

THE Task:

•Research and complete a timeline clearly showing the different styles of music from 1900 to 2010.

•Include popular artists for each style.

•Mark notable pieces with a date of either composition or first performance.

•Can you explain where these genres were based?

•One interesting fact about each genre?

•Pick one of the styles and produce a short PowerPoint presentation on its origins ready to present to the class.

•Hand in during the first lesson back in September.

(as a starting point)

Here are some of the genres you could include….

  • Swing
  • Gospel
  • Jazz, bebop, cool jazz, Dixieland, hard bop, modal jazz, acid jazz
  • Blues
  • Scat
  • March
  • Ragtime
  • Musicals
  • Washboard bands(skiffle)
  • Country
  • Big band
  • Rock & Roll
  • Rhythm and Blues
  • R&B
  • Soul
  • Motown
  • Psychedelic Rock, heavy rock, hard rock, soft rock, folk rock, surf rock, progressive rock, indie rock
  • Funk
  • Pop, synth pop, teen pop, urban pop, tweenie pop, brit pop.
  • Disco
  • Hip hop
  • Heavy metal, nu metal,
  • New wave
  • New romantics
  • Grunge
  • Reggae/Ska