Autumn 1

Week/Composer/Composer Facts

Song

Renaissance 1400-1600

Week 1: William Byrd 1540 - 1623

Cantiones Sacrae

Week 2: Josquin des Prez 1450 - 1521

El Grillo

Week 3: John Dowland 1563 – 1626

Lachrimae

Week 4: Giovanni Gabrieli 1554 – 1612

Sonata pian’e forte

Autumn 2

Baroque 1600-1750

Week 1: Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741

The Four Seasons

Week 2: Johan Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Week 3: George Frideric Handel 1685-1759

Water Music

Week 4:Henry Purcell 1659 - 1695

The Chamber Opera Dido and Aeneas.

Spring 1

Classical 1750-1820

Week 1: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Week 2: Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770 – 1827

Symphony No.5 in C minor

Week 3: Franz Schubert  1797 -1828

The London Symphonies. Symphony No.9

Week 4:  Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809

Clock Symphony

Spring 2

Romantic 1820-1900

Week 1: Federico Chopin 1810- 1849

The Minute Waltz

Week 2: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Nutcracker)

Or Swan Lake

Week 3: Felix Mendelssohn 1809 - 1847

The Wedding March

Week 4: Johannes Brahm 1833 – 1897

Lullaby

Summer 1

Modern 1890- 1960

Week 1 Gustav Holst 1874 - 1934

The Planets, op. 32

Week 2: James Horner 1953 – 2015

My Heart will go on (titanic)

Week 3: Samuel Barber 1910 – 1981

Adagio for Strings, op.11

Week 4: Sergei Prokofiev 1891 – 1953

Peter and the Wolf

Week 5: Elmer Bernstein 1922 – 2004

The Great Escape

Week 6: Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 –

Phantom of the opera

Summer 2

Contemporary 1960-present

Week 1: Hans Zimmer

The Lion King

Week 2 Lady Gaga

Hold my Hand

Week 3: Ed Sherman 1991 -

Thinking Out Loud

Week 4: Beatles

Let It Be

Week 5:  Howard Leslie Shore 1946

The Lord of The Rings