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Ultimate Guide to A Level Music: I Want to Tell You
Struggling to revise for A Level Music: I Want to Tell You? Well, struggle no longer – this is the place to be! Struggling to revise for A level music: I Want to Tell You, and not sure where to start? Panicking because there isn’t much time left until the exam? Not to...
Ultimate Guide to A level Music: Here, There and Everywhere
The Beatles wrote Here, There and Everywhere for their seventh studio album, Revolver. This was the first album the Beatles did not perform live: in fact, they stopped touring that year.
Ultimate Guide to A Level Music: Eleanor Rigby
Struggling to revise for A level Music Eleanor Rigby? Well, struggle no longer: here is the ultimate guide to this set work.Struggling to revise for A level music: Eleanor Rigby, and not sure where to start? Panicking because there are only a few months left until...
Ultimate Guide to GCSE Music: Defying Gravity
Defying Gravity was written for the massively successful musical Wicked, which premiered in 2003. The music and lyrics were written by the rather multi-talented Stephen Schwartz.
Ultimate Guide to GCSE Music: Star Wars
Star Wars: A New Hope was a film released in 1977 under director George Lucas. John Williams, one of the most important film composers of all time, wrote its music.
Ultimate Guide to GCSE Music: Pathetique Sonata
The Pathetique Sonata was the eighth sonata written by German composer Beethoven (in total he wrote 32 of them!), and it was published in 1799. It was dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky.
Ultimate Guide to GCSE Music: Killer Queen
Killer Queen was written by Freddie Mercury and was released on Queen’s 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack. And… it was written about an upper-class prostitute!
Ultimate Guide to GCSE Music: Brandenburg Concerto
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 was written by Bach for the Margrave of Brandenburg. He wrote it along with five other concertos, and presented them to the Margrave in 1721.
Ultimate Guide to GCSE Music: Music for a While
Music for a While was written by English composer Purcell for the opera Oedipus rex in 1692. The plot concerns a man called Oedipus accidentally fulfilling a prophecy to kill his father and marry his mother. No, not joking!